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Free Thinking - Neil Jordan, Flat Time House, Teletubbies
Author Neil Jordan in a hall of mirrors and artist Laure Prouvost on Flat Time House

Free Thinking: India/Pakistan: Mohsin Hamid. Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House. Preti Taneja and Sam Goodman
Anne McElvoy and guests look back at 1947, the end of empire and refugees travelling now.

Free Thinking - Japan Now Festival at the British Library.
Christopher Harding talks to writers Alex Kerr, Yoko Tawada and filmmaker Momoko Ando.

Free Thinking - Sleep and Creativity
Rana Mitter explores why we sleep with pioneering researcher into the body clock, Matt...

Free Thinking: 'Play' in urban design, Gillian Allnutt
Philip Dodd considers the importance of 'play' in the way our city centres are designed.

Soil Stories Old and New
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Jules Pretty, Andrew Scott, Philip Coupland, Matthew Kelly

Free Thinking - Shakespeare in cartoons; Jess Phillips; Sidney Nolan's Australian legends.
Anne McElvoy talks to cartoonists and curators about creating memorable images.

Free Thinking: Hull: A trip down memory lane.
Basil Kirchin's Hull, Richard Bean's Civil War play and the re-opened Ferens Art Gallery.

Free Thinking: Martin Luther- fundamentalist reactionary or enlightened creator of our modern world
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Ulinka Rublack and Peter Stanford discuss Martin Luther

Free Thinking: Paolozzi; Daniel Dennett
Philip Dodd looks at the art of Paolozzi and talks consciousness with Daniel Dennett.