Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking - Gut Instinct
Matthew Sweet is joined by former Labour strategist Alastair Campbell, epidemiologist...
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Free Thinking - Greece & Russia
Anne McElvoy assesses reports that members of the new Greek government are age-old and...
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Free Thinking - Godzilla and Hayao Miyazaki
MJ Hyland reviews Simon Armitage's The Last Days of Troy at the Royal Exchange Lily...
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Free Thinking - Global Crisis
Anne McElvoy talks to the historian Geoffrey Parker about Global Crisis, his account...
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Free Thinking - Girls & Constitution
Samira Ahmed looks at the appeal of Lena Dunham's US TV series Girls with comedian and...
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Free Thinking - French thought and politics.
Is France ceasing to be French - Philip Dodd and his guests investigate
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Free Thinking - French Thought - The prophecies of Thomas the Rhymer - French rom-com
Anne McElvoy on French intellectual traditions & rom-com; prophecies of Thomas the Rhymer
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Free Thinking - Free Speech on Campus. Acting Arthur Miller
Zo毛 Wanamaker, Antony Sher and David Suchet discuss acting Arthur Miller with Philip Dodd
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Free Thinking - Francis Fukuyama
Fukuyama and Howard Jacobson are interviewed by Philip Dodd. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama...
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Free Thinking - France & Algeria
Anne McElvoy looks at the relationship between France and its former colonies, talking...
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Free Thinking - Flora Thompson & Ruins
Richard Mabey discusses his biography of Flora Thompson, author of Lark Rise to and on...
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Free Thinking - First World War, Empathy
Matthew Sweet revisits Alan Bleasdale's 1986 World War One TV series The Monocled by...
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Free Thinking - Figuring Out Abstract Art
Scientist Susan Greenfield, painter Fiona Rae, poet Paul Farley and artist and TV Matt...
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Free Thinking - Feminism in Theatre
American novelist Jonathan Lethem discusses the singer Pete Seeger, whose death has...
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Free Thinking - Feature: Bamburgh Castle
Dr Alun Withey researches an 18th C healthcare scheme at Bamburg Castle in Northumberland
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Free Thinking - Export of Empire & India's New Story
Rana Mitter talks to historian and MP Tristram Hunt about how Britain's experience of...
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Free Thinking - Everything That You Never Knew About Indian History
Rana Mitter explores new research into India in the second world war and the British Raj
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Free Thinking - Everyman
Philip Dodd reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman...
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Free Thinking - Essay Writing & Tim Winton
Anne McElvoy looks at the resurgence of non-fiction writing and the essay as a form...
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Free Thinking - Eroticism & Utopia
Dylan Evans tells Matthew Sweet about his experimental community in the Scottish and...
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Free Thinking - Erica Jong. Richard Jones. Ben Bernanke
Erica Jong on her book "Fear of Dying". Richard Jones on staging The Hairy Ape
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Free Thinking - English Civil War
As Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is revived at The National's how...
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Free Thinking - Emotion in Art - Frederick Forsyth: 15 September 15
Frederick Forsyth discusses spy fiction and fact and Matthew Sweet explores our emotions.
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Free Thinking - EM Forster
Damon Galgut's new book Arctic Summer evokes EM Forster's experiences in India and the...
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Free Thinking - Eimear McBride & Nathan Filer
Prize-winning first novelists Eimear McBride and Nathan Filer join Anne McElvoy to...
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Free Thinking - Edna O'Brien
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien in conversation with Philip Dodd.
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Free Thinking - Edmund de Waal, Orhan Pamuk
Ceramicist Edmund de Waal and author Orhan Pamuk are in conversation with Philip Dodd.
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Free Thinking - Eddie Marsan
Andrew O'Hagan talks to Matthew Sweet about identity, capturing memories and the of in...
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Free Thinking - Dramatising Democracy
Author Michael Dobbs, dramatists James Graham and Paula Milne and TV producer Tierney...
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Free Thinking - Does Europe need an East?
Interview with the prominent Czech writer who has just published memoir, My Crazy by a...
