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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Sleep justice and sleeplessness

    Laurence Scott talks to researchers exploring how we sleep and the idea of sleep justice

  2. Sleep

    John Gallagher gets sleeping tips from research pioneers and early modern history

  3. Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture

    Lisa Mullen, Caroline Frost and historian & podcast host Greg Jenner join Matthew Sweet

  4. Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose

    Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence

  5. Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose

    Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence.

  6. Slavoj Žižek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose

    Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence.

  7. Slavic culture and myth

    Matthew Sweet looks at the origins of creatures like Baba Yaga, Banniks and Rusalkas.

  8. Slavery Stories

    A long lost classic now published, Esi Edugyan's Booker shortlisted novel & new research

  9. Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft

    Laurence Scott & Will Self on redundant features in design + a visit to Collect Craft Show

  10. Sisters

    The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Lucy Holland and Shahidha Bari

  11. Simplify your life

    Nudism, camping, and vegetarianism: the Life Reform movement explained.

  12. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

    One of the key French Existentialists of the 1950s, how does de Beauvoir read today?

  13. Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay.

    Rana Mitter discusses writing on art from Da Vinci and Rembrandt to Louise Bourgeois.

  14. Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.

    Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.

  15. Sidney Poitier

    Matthew Sweet and guests consider the career of the Bahamian-American actor (1927-2022)

  16. Should We Keep Pets?

    John Bradshaw, Jessica Pierce, Philip Howell and Laura Purcell with Anne McElvoy.

  17. Should Doctors Cry?

    Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age?

  18. Shoes

    From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos - Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade

  19. Ships and History

    Artist Hew Locke plus historians Sarah Caputo, Jake Subryan Richards, and Tom Nancollas

  20. Sheffield reinvented

    New words, music and film from the "City of Steel", presented by John Gallagher.

  21. Shakespeare's Women

    The women who crop up in Shakespeare's life, his plays and who helped conserve his legacy

  22. Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound

    Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?

  23. Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer

    Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.

  24. Shakespeare for the People

    Adrian Lester and Prof Ewan Fernie talk to Islam Issa about Birmingham's first folio.

  25. Shakespeare as inspiration

    From Bollywood films and Pre-Raphaelite art to productions of Shakespeare in places at war

  26. Sesame Street and Soviet culture

    Anne McElvoy looks at Russian punk protest + a version of US TV's Big Bird, Bert and Ernie

  27. Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.

    Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns w/ Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias

  28. Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds

    Quassim Cassam & Simon Beard with Matthew Sweet + RW Fassbinder's '70s TV sci-fi series

  29. Secrets, Lies & Irish History

    Clair Wills, Martin Doyle, Scott McKendry & Louise Brangan discuss secrets and conflict

  30. Sebastian Faulks

    The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel Paris Echo.

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