Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking - Derek Jarman
The actor Simon Russell Beale discusses playing the role of King Lear.
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Free Thinking - David H Hwang & Eleanor Marx
David Henry Hwang tells Philip about his 2007 drama Yellow Face, reflecting life of in...
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Free Thinking - David Grossman
David Grossman's new book Falling Out of Time mixes poetry, drama and fiction to grief...
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Free Thinking - David Grossman
Matthew Sweet talks to the Israeli novelist David Grossman about his book Falling Out...
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Free Thinking - David Cohen prize
Rana Mitter talks to Tony Harrison, the winner of the biennial David Cohen prize - one...
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Free Thinking - Dante's Divine Comedy
To mark Dante's birth 750 years ago, Philip Dodd chairs a Landmark discussion about of...
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Free Thinking - Dame Janet Suzman
In extended conversation with Philip Dodd, Dame Janet Suzman talks about her acting in...
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Free Thinking - Dadaism's 100th anniversary
Matthew Sweet looks at the founding of the Dada movement 100 years ago.
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Free Thinking - Dadaism's 100th anniversary
Matthew Sweet looks at the founding of the Dada movement 100 years ago.
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Free Thinking - Dad's Army; States of Mind at the Wellcome Institute; Utopia in sci-fi
Marking Dad's Army on film, Matthew Sweet looks at the fifth column.
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Free Thinking - Culloden
Peter Watkins' film Culloden is 50, and in front of an audience at the Edinburgh Sweet...
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Free Thinking - Cosmopolitanism/Nation State
Philip Dodd continues his exploration of the culture wars by investigating the tension...
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Free Thinking - Contemporary Curating
Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic and curators Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Victoria Walsh...
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Free Thinking - Concrete: Marina Lewycka, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Lynsey Hanley
Matthew Sweet explores concrete homes with Marina Lewycka and looks at art at the YSP
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Free Thinking - Con Men; John Dee; F For Fake
Matthew Sweet explores the art of the con.
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Free Thinking - Community. The Amber Collective. Poet Claudia Rankine: 24 June 15
Philip Dodd discusses community and talks a poet Claudia Rankine.
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Free Thinking - Community & The Human Figure
The director of the Hayward Ralph Rugoff, former principal Royal Ballet dancer Deborah...
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Free Thinking - Colm Toibin; Mammoth Cloning; Fareed Zakaria
Matthew Sweet is joined by Colm Toibin to discuss the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop; Beth...
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Free Thinking - Clive James
In an extended interview, Philip Dodd talks to Clive James whose writing and in the of...
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Free Thinking - Class in Britain
Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was 18. First performed in 1958, a new...
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Free Thinking - Cities and Safety
Philip Dodd rereads Conrad's The Secret Agent and considers what a safe city means now.
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Free Thinking - Cities & Resilience
New Generation Thinker Daisy Hay talks to Anne McElvoy about the relationship between...
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Free Thinking - Christine Lagarde
As International Monetary Fund Director Christine Lagarde gives this year芒鈧劉s Anne...
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Free Thinking - Childhood
Frank Field MP, child psychiarist Dickon Bevington and authors Meg Rosoff and Philip a...
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Free Thinking - Chibundu Onuzo; Nadeem Aslam. Lockwood Kipling's art.
Anne McElvoy reads novels set in Pakistan and Nigeria; plus Lockwood Kipling art teacher.
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Free Thinking - Charm
Author and design consultant Stephen Bayley has written an e-book called Charm: A...
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Free Thinking - Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin's City Lights is ranked by The American Film Institute as one of the...
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Free Thinking - Charles Kingsley's Water Babies
As a musical version of The Water Babies opens Simon Heffer and New Generation Thinker...
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Free Thinking - Chalke Valley History Festival: 16 July 15
Anne McElvoy discusses heroic triumph and failure with a trio of eminent historians
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Free Thinking - Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips talks to Matthew Sweet about his new novel The Lost Child which...
