Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking - Carsten H枚ller, freaks and fairground
Matthew Sweet has a go on Carsten H枚ller's slide at the Hayward Gallery
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Free Thinking - Caribbean Culture.
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Colin Grant and Kei Miller discuss the Caribbean with Matthew Sweet
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Free Thinking - Canada 150: Robert Lepage, Katherine Ryan.
The French Canadian playwright/performer and the stand up comedian talk to Philip Dodd
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Free Thinking - Bryan Stevenson, Slunglow Camelot, Go Set A Watchman, Utopia at the Roundhouse: 15 July 15
Philip Dodd discusses Camelot: The Shining City and reviews the new Harper Lee
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Free Thinking - British Monarchy
Philip Dodd and a panel including historians Philip Ziegler and John Guy, biographer a...
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Free Thinking - Britain's Economy
Will Hutton joins Anne McElvoy for a programme focusing on economics and wealth in...
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Free Thinking - Brink of War
As part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink, Free Thinking takes the cultural temperature...
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Free Thinking - Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution
Peter Stanford Ulinka Rublack and Diarmaid MacCulloch discuss Martin Luther.
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Free Thinking - Breaking Free: Karl Kraus - Jonathan Franzen.
Philip Dodd looks at the biting satire and contemporary relevance of Austrian Karl Kraus
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Free Thinking - Botticelli Reimagined, A New Biography of Hitler
How German historians view Hitler now and Anne McElvoy reviews Botticelli at the V&A
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Free Thinking - Blade Runner. Ghost Stories
Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 & visits haunted places in Portsmouth
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Free Thinking - Blade Runner. Ghost Stories
Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 & visits haunted places in Portsmouth.
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Free Thinking - Blade Runner
As Ridley Scott's science fiction extravaganza, Blade Runner is re-released, Matthew...
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Free Thinking - Black British History.
Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on Black Britain
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Free Thinking - Betty Balfour
Matthew Sweet discusses the silent film star Betty Balfour with BFI curator Byony and...
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Free Thinking - Belle & Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
Amma Asante's film Belle depicts an illegitimate mixed-race girl brought up in London...
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Free Thinking - Bella Bathurst. Mike Figgis. Birds in British literature. 2017 New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt.
Matthew Sweet explores deafness, plot twists, birds in books & how music is good for you
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Free Thinking - Being Human: New Generation Thinkers explore Escape, Lying and Fear.
Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott on Vernon Lee, Harvey Matusow and wartime Senate House
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Free Thinking - Being Human Debate at FACT, Liverpool: Man and Animals
From mermaids to robots via monkeys and men and zoos for humans and animals.
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Free Thinking - Beards. Listening. Masculinity.
Alun Withey on beards, Josh Appignanesi & Devorah Baum on fatherhood, with Matthew Sweet
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Free Thinking - Barbara Kruger & Laurie Penny
Samira Ahmed discusses feminism with American artist Barbara Kruger and journalist the...
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Free Thinking - Banksy + Chris Marker
Samira Ahmed discusses the ownership of street art with Mary McCarthy, Director of MM...
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Free Thinking - Balancing Power in World War One
Jonathan Powell and historians Margaret MacMillan, Orlando Figes and Adam Tooze the...
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Free Thinking - Autism, The Financial Crisis, The Fallen Woman: 22 September 15
Steve Silberman on attitudes to autism, Gillian Tett on silos, Lynda Nead on fallen woman
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Free Thinking - Australian writer Peter Carey
How history can help to shape policy making? Rana Mitter is joined by The History MP...
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Free Thinking - Australia
Christos Tsiolkas, Germaine Greer and the Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson talk about the...
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Free Thinking - Atheism and Belief
Two books published this month include the idea of "the death of God" in their titles:...
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Free Thinking - Arundhati Roy
The Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd.
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Free Thinking - Artist Taryn Simon. Deglobalisation. 2017 New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck on the circus.
Photo London's Master of Photography Taryn Simon on her new exhibition Image Atlas
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Free Thinking - Art Spiegelman. Marina Abramovic. American Pastoral.
Naomi Alderman reports on a version of Maus which puts music alongside the images.
