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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Rock Follies

    The groundbreaking 1970s TV drama reassessed with guests including actor Rula Lenska.

  2. Robin Askwith

    The actor talks to Matthew Sweet about a childhood affected by polio and his career.

  3. Robert Aickman

    For Halloween, Matthew Sweet & guests discuss supernatural fiction, bad teeth & canals

  4. Rivers, different cultures, different values

    Anthropologist, Poet, Archaeologist and Angler reflect on what a river should be

  5. Rivers and geopolitics

    Global Dams, Ancient Rome & the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity

  6. Revisit: What does game playing teach us

    From a Mesopotamian game to Scrabble, Shahidha Bari discusses competition and gaming.

  7. Revisit: Tokyo Story

    Actor Richard Wilson & Prof Naoko Shimazu discuss Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 film of family life

  8. Revisit: Tokyo Idols and Urban Life

    The weird world of teenage girls seeking fame, plus the city in fiction and photography.

  9. Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

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

  10. Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

    Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova join Rana Mitter at Hay

  11. Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken

    Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health

  12. Revisit: Mark Haddon

    As it comes out in paperback, Mark Haddon talks to Anne McElvoy about The Porpoise.

  13. Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia

    Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk

  14. Revisit: Arundhati Roy

    The Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd.

  15. Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species

    An author, scientist, architect and explorer compare notes on this polar region.

  16. Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion

    Rana Mitter with the 6 shortlisted historians and an audience at the British Academy

  17. Revisit The influence of the British black arts movement

    Sonia Boyce, Harold Offeh, Isaac Julien and Eddie Chambers talk to Anne McElvoy

  18. Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking

    The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about BlacKkKlansman & his 2000 film Bamboozled

  19. Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan

    Laurence Scott meets the family of a rediscovered African American writer & 3 historians

  20. Revisit Shoes

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

  21. Revisit Rashōmon

    David Peace, Natasha Pulley, Jasper Sharp & Yuna Tasaka on the film + the book behind it

  22. Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction

    Anne McElvoy looks at Napoleon's biography, caricatures and professional impersonators.

  23. Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.

    The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting history and politics on film.

  24. Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving Home

    Psychologist Stephen Briers, student Ceyda Uzun and Durham Univeristy's Caroline Dower

  25. Revenge and reconciliation

    In the week we mark the Armistice of World War I, Anne McElvoy and guests discuss revenge

  26. Rev Dr Giles Fraser

    Rev Dr Giles Fraser, the former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, gives a talk...

  27. Rethinking Tradition

    Roger Scruton, Kevin Davey, Kirsty Gunn & Haroon Mirza on tradition & experiment

  28. Rethinking the Curriculum

    Sandeep Parmar, Jade Cuttle, Edith Hall, Seb Falk talk to Rana Mitter about what we teach

  29. Rethinking Civilisations

    David Olusoga, Kit Davies and Kenan Malik debate what civilisation means with Philip Dodd

  30. Resting And Rushing

    Should we take more breaks at during the working day? With Claudia Hammond.

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