Free Thinking Episodes Episode guide
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Peter Brook
Peter Brook 1925-2022: the theatre director in conversation with Matthew Sweet in 2013.
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Zimbabwean writing
NoViolet Bulwayo's We Need New Names on stage plus "enfant terrible" Dambudzo Marechera
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith talks dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences with Philip Dodd
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Yishai Sarid; marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
Anne McElvoy talks to Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid & hears about new historical research
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Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France
Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner talk to Matthew Sweet about a lost language of the road
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Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
Novelist R F Kuang, Dr Kerry McInerney, Ghislaine Boddington and MIT's Daron Acemoglu
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WW II radio propaganda & French relations
From a gratitude train to the sinister broadcasts to US soldiers. Matthew Sweet presents.
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Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham at the British Library with Matthew Sweet
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Writing Place
Sylvia Townsend Warner's move to Dorset, Heidegger's Heimat and the Arun river in Sussex.
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Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones
Shahidha Bari is joined by three writers to discuss love and the contemporary novel.
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Writing and Frankness
Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips & Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.
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Writing about money
Orwell Prize finalist Kojo Koram plus poetry interested in economics
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Writing About Faith
Stand-up Frank Skinner and novelists Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi talk to Laurence Scott
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Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes
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World's Fairs and the future
Visions of the future shaped by empire, politics and unfaltering faith in progress
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Working Class Creativity
Depictions of working class life on TV and in culture and how they've changed
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Women's Art
Jennifer Higgie, Adjoa Osei, Veronica Ryan, and Lydia Yee talk to Shahidha Bari
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Women, relationships and the law past and present
Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay
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Women, language & experience
Shahidha Bari's guests include Karen McCarthy Woolf, Lauren Elkin and Sara Ahmed
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Women, art and activism
Naomi Paxton and guests on exhibitions at Tate Britain, the Barbican and Modern Art Oxford
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Women warriors and power brokers
Shobana Jeyasingh, Cat Jarman and Janina Ramirez with Shahidha Bari
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Women Finding a Voice
Deborah Frances-White host of The Guilty Feminist pod, Natalie Haynes, Michèle Roberts
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Women Behaving Badly?
Kiley Reid on her new novel and Helen Lewis on 'difficult' women
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WOLVES
How wolves shape our modern world.
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Wolfson Prize 2023
Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize
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Wolfson History Prize Discussion.
Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy
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Wole Soyinka's writing
Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike & Oladipo Agboluaje discuss the Nigerian author's life and work
