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Free Thinking - Whose Book Is It Anyway?
Anne McElvoy discusses new research into how, when and why Britons got the reading habit.

Free Thinking: Enoch Powell; US Supreme Court; War & Art
Birmingham Rep stages a play about Enoch Powell; John Keane & Jananne Al-Ani on war art.

Free Thinking- William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.
South Africa and art with William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes .

Free Thinking - Richard Hakluyt; Man Booker Prize; Chickens in the Anthropocene; Shirley Jackson.
Why chickens are man's best friend, Richard Hakluyt's voyages to America & parallels now

Free Thinking: Artes Mundi Prize. Harriet Walter. Amitav Ghosh. Edmund Richardson
Harriet Walter prepares to play Prospero, a review of the bi-ennial art prize in Cardiff.

Free Thinking - Paul Nash; George Szirtes; Hungary 1956 and now.
A graphic novel inspired by Paul Nash's dreams. Religion & revolution in Hungary debated

Free Thinking: Kevin Brownlow
Kevin Brownlow talks to Matthew Sweet about documenting and restoring silent classics.

Free Thinking: Caravaggio; Bob Dylan; Dario Fo; Lenin's train journey.
Caravaggio's art explored by Letizia Treves, Joe Moshenska and Anders Lustgarten.

Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers - Teju Cole
From Baldwin to Black Lives Matter. Philip Dodd talks to Teju Cole

Free Thinking: Outsiders and Colin Wilson. Norse sagas. The Vulgar.
Gary Lachman discusses Colin Wilson's ideas about alienation with Matthew Sweet.