Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking - Arianna Huffington & Richard Hytner
Arianna Huffington talks to Anne McElvoy about measuring success using The Third Metric.
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Free Thinking - Archaelogy: Alexandra Sofroniew, Damian Robinson, Raimund Karl, Susan Greaney.
Rana Mitter hears about archaeology underwater at home and abroad, at the BM & Ashmoleum
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Free Thinking - Aphra Behn. 1066 and the South Coast. Mark Thompson
Playwright, poet, spy. Anne McElvoy on Aphra Behn at the RSC. And a festival marking 1066
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Free Thinking - Antony Sher
Philip Dodd in extended conversation with the actor Antony Sher whose recent roles and...
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Free Thinking - Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Fraser talks to Matthew Sweet about her childhood in Oxford and London in...
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Free Thinking - Anne Enright, Christopher Hampton 07May15
Anne Enright, Ireland's first Laureate for Fiction, talks to Anne McElvoy about her...
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Free Thinking - Anna Pavord: Gardens in Art. University funding.
Anne McElvoy views Painting the Modern Garden at the RA and talks to Anna Pavord.
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Free Thinking - Alberto Manguel
Matthew Sweet interviews Alberto Manguel about his new book, Curiosity.
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Free Thinking - Alan Hollinghurst
The former Booker Prize winner talks to Anne McElvoy and a Proms Extra audience.
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Free Thinking - Akram Khan
Choreographer Akram Khan talks to Anne McElvoy about curating a festival at the Lowry,...
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Free Thinking - Ai Weiwei at Blenheim
Rana Mitter has a first-night review of Electra with Kristin Scott Thomas from Edith...
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Free Thinking - Age of Earthquakes
Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar and Hans Ulrich Obrist explain the Extreme Present to...
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Free Thinking - Against Democracy
Churchill famously commented that 鈥榙emocracy is the worst form of government, except...
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Free Thinking - A Brexit reading list.
Edith Hall, Chris Kissane + Matthew Sweet consider what might be on a Brexit reading list
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Free Thinking - 3 American Authors
Matthew Sweet looks at depictions of American life and history in a special edition...
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Free Thinking - 18th Century Sexual Politics
Philip Dodd explores the sexual mores of eighteenth-century England talking to of of...
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Free Thinking - 18th Century Power Politics
Anne McElvoy talks to Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Amanda...
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Free Thinking - 18th Century Economics - Bernard de Mandeville
In 1714 Bernard de Mandeville published his provocative Fable of the Bees, in which he...
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Free Thinking - 18th Century Crime and Punishment
Philip Dodd explores 18th century attitudes to the law, crime and punishment with S QC...
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Free Thinking - 18th Century
If Mrs Thatcher thought she was living again through Victorian England, we are now the...
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Free Thinking - Social Identity
Philip Dodd looks at the value of the arts with the former Chief Scientific Advisor to...
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Free Thinking - Male Friendship
'One Man, Two Guvnors' playwright Richard Bean and novelists Steve Tolz and AD Miller...
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Free Thinking - Karim Miske; Aatish Taseer: 11 Feb15
Karim Misk茅 and Aatish Taseer discuss their recent novels, the French tradition of of...
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Free Thinking - Hay Festival
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council run a scheme to find the best...
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Free Thinking - Global Shakespeare
Philip Dodd explores what a world view of Shakespeare means. Guests include Globe from...
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Free Thinking - Decision Making in the Money Markets
Does emotion or reason dictate the financial markets? Anne McElvoy is joined by Global...
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Free Thinking - Buddhism
Rana Mitter discusses Buddhism, in Western therapy and in Eastern politics with Mark -...
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Free Thinking - The Cultural Revolution
Frank Dik枚tter, Xiaolu and Xinran join Rana Mitter to revisit the Cultural Revolution
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Free Thinking - Slavoj Zizek.
Philip Dodd debates migration, global solidarity with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek
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Free Thinking - Saki. Ria Sattouf. Anders Lustgarten. 鈥楢 Thing鈥�
Rana Mitter talks to playwright Anders Lustgarten & rereads Saki's satirical stories.
