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Free Thinking Episodes

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    The Memes that Make Us Laugh

    Julian Baggini, Tiffany Watt Smith & Christopher Harding

  2. The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President

    Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.

  3. The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

    Dr Foster writer Mike Bartlett on his new play Albion plus the rise of small nations.

  4. The Liverpool Biennial debate

    How to reflect Liverpool's history in new artworks: Anne McElvoy hosts a discussion.

  5. The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries

    An archaeologist, a historian and a poet join Shahidha Bari as the gospels return North.

  6. The Legacy of the Trojan War

    Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city still cast such a long shadow?

  7. The Left Behind

    Eric Kaufmann talks to Philip Dodd about white identity, populism and immigration

  8. The Language of Flowers

    Rebecca Solnit's book Orwell's Roses explores his interest in gardening

  9. The Kyoto School

    Chris Harding investigates the flourishing of Japanese philosophy in the 1930s and beyond

  10. The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.

    Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, and the history of sewing.

  11. The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature

    Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.

  12. The Joy of Bureaucracy

    Matthew Sweet with guests including Lord Butler, André Spicer and Eliane Glaser

  13. The Joy of Bad Films

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

  14. The Invention of the Circus Ring

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

  15. The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies

    Stephen Bush, Dr Sarah Jilani , Kate Maltby and Keith Shiri join Matthew Sweet

  16. The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies

    Stephen Bush, Dr Sarah Jilani , Kate Maltby and Keith Shiri join Matthew Sweet

  17. The In Between

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough considers airport lounges railway stations and liminal spaces

  18. The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023

    As the IWM unveils its new art galleries, Anne McElvoy & guests discuss photographing war

  19. The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022

    How video games interpret stories about war and conflict and help to train troops.

  20. The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021

    How do we define a war? Anne McElvoy and guests look at how language changes attitudes.

  21. The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020

    What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?

  22. The impact of a future energy crisis on our way of life

    How will our world change as traditional energy supplies shrink and climate change us...

  23. The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy

    Mark Miodownik, Emily Herring, Rob Newman & Fay Dowker consider Time with Matthew Sweet

  24. The History of Sex

    Fern Riddell, Kate Lister and Robin Mitchell discuss their research with Matthew

  25. The Greenwich Outrage

    The attempt by an anarchist to blow up the Royal Observatory in 1894 and its consequences

  26. The Goodies

    Matthew Sweet meets the trio behind the '70s and early '80s TV comedy show

  27. The Good Life

    Michael Rosen,Fergus Butler-Gallie Sophie Scott-Brown, Rachel Wiseman, Sudhir Hazareesingh

  28. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

    Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn, Xiaolu Guo & Matthew Sweet on Doris Lessing.

  29. The Golden Notebook

    Lara Feigel, Xiaolu Guo, Melissa Benn + David Aaronovitch on Doris Lessing's 1962 novel.

  30. The Generation Gap

    Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoyé talk family histories with Matthew Sweet

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