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Free Thinking Episodes

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    What does game playing teach us?

    Bobby Seagull & Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.

  2. What does a black history curriculum look like?

    Whose life stories are missing from the British history we write and teach?

  3. What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.

    Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.

  4. What Do We Mean by "Working Class Writing"?

    Kit de Waal, Darren McGarvey, Adelle Stripe and Michael Chaplin with Shahidha Bari.

  5. What Camus and Claude Lévi-Strauss teach us

    Being an outsider and learning to think like an outsider

  6. Whale-watching

    Philip Hoare, Rachel Murray, Peter Riley and Edward Sugden explore marine life.

  7. Whale watching

    Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.

  8. Were the Luddites Right?

    Updated corrected audio: Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddites to mark their...

  9. Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture

    Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome... Cabaret and club culture, recorded at the Barbican.

  10. Weapons, real and symbolic

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss tanks, guns, gaming, drones and what weaponisation means

  11. Weapons, real and symbolic

    Matthew Sweet and guests explore what weapons mean - in the past and now.

  12. Wealth

    Can the accumulation of wealth be ethical and what can we learn from Adam Smith's work?

  13. War in fact and fiction

    Historians and authors discuss their own work and reflections on conflict and violence.

  14. Walls

    Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall

  15. Vikings

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to scholars with new insights on the Viking period

  16. Victorian Values

    Gisela Stuart, AN Wilson, Fern Riddell, Sarah Williams, Matthew Stallard, Matthew Sweet

  17. Victorian streets

    Is that strong inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one?

  18. Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork

    Nandini Das visits Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean in Oxford and talks to a jeweller

  19. Vampires and the Penny Dreadful

    Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire

  20. Valis and Philip K Dick

    A weirdly autobiographical science fiction novel from 1981 inspired by hallucinations.

  21. Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

    Naomi Alderman, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson and others discuss the politics of this 1973 fable

  22. Uncertainty

    Chris Lintott, Margaret Heffernan, Liam Halligan, Tim Garton Ash, Victoria Donovan

  23. Twilight

    Poet Pascale Petit, photographer Jasper Goodall, Alexandra Harris, composer Sally Beamish

  24. Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history

    Having survived a plane crash, the Turkish Prime Minister 1950-60 died in an execution

  25. Tudor families

    Tangled bloodlines, executions and a big, gold inflatable thing belonging to Henry VIII

  26. Trees of Knowledge

    Peter Wohlleben Emanuele Coccia Marion Sidebottom Luke Turner

  27. Travel, pleasure and peril

    From preventing strangulation on the railways to guide maps and the art of travel posters

  28. Travel

    Travel past and present and broadening the mind? Travel journalists and historians debate

  29. Trapeze acts and circus celebrities

    Shahidha Bari hears about the aerialists Lillian Leitzel and Pablo Fanque.

  30. Translating Cultures

    Composer Alex Ho, novelist Xiaolu Guo, curator George Young and director Anthony Lau

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