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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn Forché

    The walking & photographs of WG Sebald. An exhibition of money and Jewish history.

  2. Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.

    A haunting & artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale, Richard Wiseman & Matthew Sweet

  3. Sea Goings

    Rana Mitter with Katie Paterson Julia Blackburn Charlotte Runcie and Cutty Sark

  4. Scottish Kingship

    Medieval myth-making, the kings of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny

  5. Schiller's Mary Stuart; Günter Grass. Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves.

    Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from Günter Grass

  6. Satyajit Ray's films

    Tariq Ali, Sarah Jilani, Sangeeta Datta, Chandak Sengoopta discuss Ray with Rana Mitter

  7. Satire and Gulliver's Travels

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss satire past and present

  8. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

    Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain.

  9. Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, Spookiness and Fear.

    The Essex Serpent's author talks to Matthew Sweet about re-imagining the Melmoth myth.

  10. Sarah Perry

    In a conversation with Mathew Sweet, the gothic author explores writing past and present.

  11. Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress

    Ahead of International Women's Day Shahidha Bari hears stories linking women with war

  12. Sankofa and Afrofuturism

    Curator Ekow Eshun, academic Sarah Jilani, sculptor Zak Ové with Shahihda Bari

  13. Samuel Johnson's circle

    Patience Agbabi's novel time travels back to eighteenth century London - so do we

  14. Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture

    If we want the arts to be a comfort blanket, where does Beckett fit in?

  15. Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners

    Selvon's evocative 1956 novel discussed at the British Library by Shahidha Bari & guests.

  16. Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty

    Novelists Salman Rushdie and Lionel Shriver plus Marcus Chown and Rachel Hewitt.

  17. Saint John Henry Newman

    Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster, Dafydd Mills Daniel on Newman's thought

  18. Saint John Henry Newman

    Newman's thought: Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel

  19. Saint John Henry Newman

    Newman's thought: Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel

  20. Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

    Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik talk to Anne McElvoy.

  21. Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment

    Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.

  22. Russia and Fear.

    Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past & present with Mark B Smith & Tamar Koplatadze.

  23. Rule Making and Rule Breaking for Women and Men.

    Sheila Hancock, Neil Bartlett, Bim Adewunmi and head teacher Jonny Mitchell debate rules.

  24. Rude Valentines. Neil Gaiman, Translating China's Arts

    Neil Gaiman talks Norse myths with Rana Mitter. And a look at the ugly side of Valentines

  25. Royalty, art and patronage.

    Craig Brown, Afua Hirsch, Robert Jobson, Joe Moshenska, AN Wilson, Philip Dodd on royalty

  26. Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

    Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.

  27. Romanticism Revisited

    Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bronte under the spotlight as a new film and exhibition open

  28. Romanian history and literature

    Novelists Mircea Cărtărescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy

  29. Rocky Horror and camp

    Shahidha Bari is joined by Louise Creechan, Joan Passey and Paul Baker

  30. Rocks

    How can earth sciences like geology transform our understanding of history and society?

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