Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking - Kenzaburo Oe, Artist and Empire at Tate Britain, Japan and Cool Now
Philip Dodd reviews the newly translated novel from Nobel prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.
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Free Thinking - Kenneth Clark & Arts Broadcasting
Philip Dodd discusses Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and arts broadcasting with Janina...
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Free Thinking - Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro talks to Anne McElvoy about his latest book 鈥� The Buried Giant.
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Free Thinking - Kate Grenville
Rana Mitter talks to Kate Grenville, one of Australia's leading novelists, about the...
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Free Thinking - Julian Schnabel
Philip Dodd in conversation with artist and film-maker Julian Schnabel, best known for...
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Free Thinking - Julian Barnes
Anne McElvoy is joined by the Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes to discuss the...
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Free Thinking - Jospeh Stiglitz and Alain Mabanckou
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz discusses income inequality. Novelist Alain Mabanckou...
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Free Thinking - Jonathan Lethem & Gary Shteyngart
American authors Jonathan Lethem and Gary Shteyngart discuss radicalism, belonging and...
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Free Thinking - John Waters
John Waters' film Hairspray became a hit musical. His "Trash Trilogy" involved with...
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Free Thinking - John Gray
John Gray talks to Matthew Sweet about why the Aztecs might have had a better of than...
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Free Thinking - John Clare & Jimmy Wales
Matthew Sweet talks to Iain Sinclair and New Generation Thinker Dr Greg Tate about a...
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Free Thinking - John Boorman; 16 June 2015
Director John Boorman looks at his film-making career with Matthew Sweet
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Free Thinking - Japan Now Festival at the British Library.
Christopher Harding talks to writers Alex Kerr, Yoko Tawada and filmmaker Momoko Ando.
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Free Thinking - Japan and Korea. Hokusai
Chris Harding discusses the work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai
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Free Thinking - James Shapiro, Macbeth on Film, Barrie Keeffe, East End museum
Matthew Sweet looks at Macbeth on film and talks to Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro.
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Free Thinking - James Bond in Spectre. Nawal El Saadawi; Lord Browne.
The Egyptian feminist author Nawal El Saadawi on protest. Lord Browne on business.
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Free Thinking - Is War Good for Us?
Anne McElvoy looks at the impact of war, the Afghan elections and childhood violence.
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Free Thinking - International Women's Day: Hollie McNish, Emily Hall, Helen Pearson, Edwina Attlee and Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Performance poet Hollie McNish and scientist Helen Pearson join Anne McElvoy.
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Free Thinking - 蜜芽传媒. Marilynne Robinson. Edwin Heathcote. Thomas Harding. Imtiaz Dharker
Marilynne Robinson, Edwin Heathcote, Thomas Harding, Imtiaz Dharker talk ideas of home
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Free Thinking - Holocaust
Rana Mitter talks to Richard J Evans' about his new book The Third Reich in History on...
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Free Thinking - Holes in the Ground
Rana Mitter explores Holes in the Ground and their emotional and practical uses.
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Free Thinking - History of Pain, Richard III, Animal Rights
Philip Dodd is joined by political commentator Steve Richards to discuss the new of is...
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Free Thinking - Hisham Matar. Street Furniture. Easternisation. New Generation Thinker Katherine Cooper on Storm Jameson.
Hisham Matar's search for his father. Street furniture. Easternisation. Storm Jameson.
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Free Thinking - High Society; Xinran; UK elections
A week on from the election, Anne McElvoy turns to three historians - Tim Bale, Krista...
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Free Thinking - Henry IV
Anne McElvoy talks to Phyllida Lloyd about playing Shakespeare in a female prison in...
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Free Thinking - Hay Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2016
The 10 New Generation Thinkers 2016 join Rana Mitter to discuss their research.
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Free Thinking - Hay Festival: David Brooks, Azar Nafisi and Tom Holland
Rana Mitter and guests New York Times journalist David Brooks, the Iranian novelist of...
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Free Thinking - Hay 2017: Writing History with Sebastian Barry, Jake Arnott, Madeleine Thien.
New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon chairs a discussion recorded at the Hay Festival.
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Free Thinking - Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi's career has included screenplays My Beautiful Launderette, Venus, Me...
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Free Thinking - Hanif Kureishi
An extended interview in which Philip Dodd is joined by novelist, screenwriter and...
