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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.

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

Free Thinking - Everything That You Never Knew About Indian History
Rana Mitter explores new research into India in the second world war and the British Raj