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Free Thinking: Poetry and Protest Newcastle

Poetry and protest -Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar and Major Jackson at Newcastle University.

• 44 mins

Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Head of News James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.

• 44 mins

Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.

Matthew Sweet in Canterbury and Portsmouth uncovering stories of the lost and the found.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking – Being Human: Lost and Found in the Archives

New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott report on the Being Human Festival

• 44 mins

Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith share visions of the future with Rana Mitter. Plus Kevin Rudd.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking – Religious Belief

Philip Dodd looks at 2000 years of Arab Christians and the modern rise of Pentecostalism.

• 43 mins

Free Thinking – David Willetts plus does scandal drive social change?

The Rt Hon Lord David Willetts talks to Philip Dodd about universities in the UK

• 44 mins

Gentrification

Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. + artist Lucinda Rogers

• 43 mins

Ken Burns – Flash photography - Joy

The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale & Kate Flint.

• 44 mins

Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment

Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.

• 44 mins

The Joy of Bad Films

Weathermen member Jonathan Lerner on underground protest & The Disaster Artist reviewed.

• 43 mins

Many faces of Eve?

Catherine Fletcher with Stephen Greenblatt, Islam Issa, Jennifer Evans and Sara Read.

• 44 mins

Landmark - This Sporting Life

Philip Dodd and his guests on David Storey's 1960 novel set in the world of rugby league

• 43 mins

Should We Keep Pets?

John Bradshaw, Jessica Pierce, Philip Howell and Laura Purcell with Anne McElvoy.

• 43 mins

A Literary Salon.

Malika Booker, Neil Brand, Katherine Cooper and Jake Arnott join Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Rethinking Tradition

Roger Scruton, Kevin Davey, Kirsty Gunn & Haroon Mirza on tradition & experiment

• 44 mins

The Invention of the Circus Ring

Matthew Sweet looks at the career of impresario Philip Astley and 250 years of circus

• 44 mins

Diving Deep

Diving as metaphor, occupation and study from Tudor times to the present

• 44 mins

Landmark: The Odyssey

Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd

• 44 mins

The In Between

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough considers airport lounges railway stations and liminal spaces

• 44 mins

Counterculture and Protest

Matthew Sweet with Paul Hartnoll, Tony White, Tessa DeCarlo & Paul Cronin on uprisings.

• 44 mins

Australian novelist Peter Carey.

A car race around Australia is fictionalised in Peter Carey's latest novel + Ovid's tales

• 44 mins

French writing and politics

Leïla Slimani, President Macron's champion of French culture and language, is interviewed

• 44 mins

Frankenstein and AI now.

Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H. Guston with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Oscar Contenders, Movie Moguls and Silent Film Stars

Lucy Porter & Steve Massa on women of the silent era, Vanda Krefft on William Fox's life

• 45 mins

Royalty, art and patronage.

Craig Brown, Afua Hirsch, Robert Jobson, Joe Moshenska, AN Wilson, Philip Dodd on royalty

• 44 mins

Burns the Radical; Exploration

Humboldt as Ecuadorian explorer, plus the territory between Scotland and England.

• 44 mins

Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries

Colm Toibin, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ellen Wettmark join Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

The Working Class in Culture

Philip Dodd and guests ask has culture forgotten the working class?

• 44 mins

Trade, Davos, Ocean travel and Mermaids

Anne McElvoy on Davos discussions, Ocean liner style at the V&A and mermaids in fiction.

• 44 mins