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Free Thinking Episodes

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    The future of universities

    Harvard's Larry Summers & OU's Josie Fraser on the impact of technology & globalisation

  2. The future of theatre debate

    Bertie Carvel, Amit Lahav, Eleanor Loyd, Roy Alexander Weise, Caroline Dinenage MP & more

  3. The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023

    The art museum as community space, immersive art experiences & other hot topics.

  4. The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022

    Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.

  5. The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art

    Michael Govan Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art talks art with Philip Dodd

  6. The Frieze Debate: Museums in the 21st Century

    Michael Govan, Sabine Haag & Hartwig Fischer at the Royal Institution, London.

  7. The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century

    Gallery directors from Russia, USA and Singapore compare notes, hosted by Anne McElvoy

  8. The Free Thinking Lecture: Linda Yueh on Globalisation

    Economist Linda Yueh delivers her vision for restoring faith in the free market.

  9. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture: Claudia Rankine

    Prize-winning poet Claudia Rankine explores language and racism past and present.

  10. The Free Thinking Festival Essay: The Medieval Scottish Dream State

    Kylie Murray explores visions of Scottishness in The Wallace and The Scotichronicon.

  11. The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Sculpture and Seduction in the 18th Century

    Danielle Thom looks at the links between bawdy prints and classical sculpture.

  12. The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Jews in Occupied France: Coexistence with the Enemy?

    Daniel Lee revisits Vichy France to uncover a different history of Jewish life there.

  13. The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Women on Their Own: Widows in Britain, Now and Then

    Nadine Muller on the status of the widow in fact and fiction “

  14. The Free Thinking Festival Essay - The Moor of Florence A Medici Mystery

    Catherine Fletcher on claims that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race

  15. The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Nancy Cunard: The Rebellious Heiress

    Sandeep Parmar on the life of the anti racist campaigner, modernist muse and heiress

  16. The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Kilts, Celts and Clearances in World War One

    Peter Mackay on what kilt wearing meant for some soldiers fighting World War One

  17. The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Inside a Pirate’s Cookbook: A Culinary Journey through the 17th Century

    Joe Moshenska on Sir Kenelm Digby - alchemist, astrologer, diplomat and recipe collector.

  18. The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Beer and the British Empire

    Sam Goodman looks at the way beer was used as both beverage and medicine in Colonial India

  19. The Foreign Secretary William Hague

    William Hague discusses the dramatic changes taking throughout the globe and Britain's...

  20. The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute

    Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst

  21. The English country house party

    Why does the grand country house party hold such power over the English imagination?

  22. The English Civil War

    Rana Mitter talks about politics, religion and divisions in 17th-century England.

  23. The end of civilisations and societies

    Peter Hitchens, Rhiannon Firth, Neville Morley, Phil Tinline, Luke Kemp join Shahidha Bari

  24. The Emotion of Now

    Which is the most pertinent emotion in 2019 UK?

  25. The Dutch Connection

    John Gallagher hears about new research into Anglo-Dutch trade and early publishing

  26. The Declaration Of Arbroath

    Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the early medieval document and Scottish politics today

  27. The Day of the Triffids

    The end of the world as we know it. Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's novel

  28. The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction.

    Michael Rosen looks at socialist fairy tales and radicalism in books for children.

  29. The Dance of Nature

    Jim Al-Khalili, Melissa Bateson, Andrew McBain and Richard Bevan explore group behaviour

  30. The Daleks

    Matthew Sweet's guests include the voice of the Daleks, and the Doctor's granddaughter

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