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Free Thinking - Meera Syal & Tanika Gupta In Conversation at Birmingham Rep
Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta discuss with Rana Mitter turning Anita and Me into a play.

Free Thinking - Salman Rushdie. Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger.
Salman Rushdie talks to Philip Dodd. Also historian Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger.

Free Thinking - Man Booker Winner. Weather and Twilight. The Kibbo Kift.
Matthew Sweet on how weather and twilight can make the world strange.

Free Thinking - Landmark: Leaves of Grass
For National Poetry Day, Matthew Sweet explores Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

Free Thinking - Free Speech on Campus. Acting Arthur Miller
Zoë Wanamaker, Antony Sher and David Suchet discuss acting Arthur Miller with Philip Dodd

Free Thinking - Suffragette. Thatcherism and Conservatism now. James Fenton.
James Fenton on his poetic career. Suffragette reviewed. Mrs Thatcher's legacy discussed.

Free Thinking - James Shapiro, Macbeth on Film, Barrie Keeffe, East End museum
Matthew Sweet looks at Macbeth on film and talks to Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro.

Free Thinking - Populism. Romola Garai on Measure for Measure.
Philip Dodd presents a discussion about populism in politics and culture.

Free Thinking - Margaret Atwood, Yuval Harari, Celts
Rana Mitter interviews novelist Margaret Atwood, Professor Yuval Harari and reviews Celts

Free Thinking - Edmund de Waal, Orhan Pamuk
Ceramicist Edmund de Waal and author Orhan Pamuk are in conversation with Philip Dodd.