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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Traditions, roots and local pride

    Ex MP Penny Mordaunt's new book asks Why Britain's Traditions Matter. Matthew Sweet hosts

  2. Trade, Davos, Ocean travel and Mermaids

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

  3. Trade and traffic

    Jeremy Hunt, Nandini Das, Rana Mitter, Soumaya Keynes & Lauren Working join Anne McElvoy

  4. Toys

    How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.

  5. Tourism past and present

    The must see sights for Post Napoleonic war tourists, cold war travellers & hot spots now

  6. Touki Bouki

    The Journey of the Hyena mixes West African oral tradition with New Wave and Soviet style

  7. Touki Bouki

    A close look at Djibril Diop Mambéty's classic 1973 film with Matthew Sweet and guests

  8. Tolerance, censorship and free speech.

    Susan Neiman, Ursula Owen & Christopher Hampton join Anne McElvoy.

  9. Tokyo Idols and Urban life.

    Tomouki Hoshino, Suzanne Mooney, Mariko Nagai and Kyoko Miyake on representing city life.

  10. Tin cans, cutlery and sewing

    New research into the history of stainless steel cutlery, tinned food and sewing machines

  11. Times of Change

    Can the Industrial Revolution and the end of the Aztecs help us shape a post COVID world

  12. Time

    As the clocks go back, Matthew Sweet and guests host a party for time travellers

  13. Thomas Mann

    Novelist Colm Toibin joins Anne McElvoy to discuss the German author's life and struggles

  14. Thinking with Food

    Felicity Cloake, John Lanchester, Prof Barry Smith, Suki Finn and Samantha Ellis

  15. Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic

    Shahidha Bari discuss the audience in the arts with Kwame Kwei Armah and guests

  16. The Writing of Aime Cesaire

    Cesaire's poetry, politics, and ideas on anti-colonialism and black consciousness

  17. The Working Lunch and Food in History

    How the Victorians changed lunch, Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.

  18. The Working Class in Culture

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

  19. The Word For World Is Forest

    Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel + Paul Foot Award.

  20. The Woolly Episode

    From Sean the Sheep & Damien Hirst, to a knitted bikini.

  21. The Wolfson Prize 2022

    Rana Mitter interviews the shortlisted authors for this prize for history writing.

  22. The Wolfson History Prize 2021

    Rana Mitter meets the six authors shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious history prize

  23. The Wife of Bath

    Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes

  24. The Wife of Bath

    Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes

  25. The Wife of Bath

    Marion Turner talks to Shahidha Bari about different versions of Chaucer's heroine

  26. The wicked? stepmother

    Ahead of Mother's Day Matthew Sweet and guests discuss new ways of looking at stepmothers

  27. The Weird. Science and Art at FACT. Japanese film Your Name.

    Rana Mitter on science and art on show at Liverpool's FACT and what we mean by the weird.

  28. The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton

    Rereading Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence.

  29. The Way We Used To Feel

    From Neanderthals, via Tudor England to Chartists - 4 historians on emotion in the past

  30. The Vietnam Paris connection

    Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet

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