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Free Thinking Episodes

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    New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries

    Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?

  2. New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people

    Islam Issa hears how Adrian Lester and Ewan Fernie are taking Shakespeare to the people

  3. New Thinking: Eco-Criticism

    Exploring the points where literature and ecological thinking meet

  4. New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music

    Digging into the music of composers Joseph Bologne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry.

  5. New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture

    A history of disability: court fools, political activism, and the 19th century novel.

  6. New Thinking: Dead Languages

    John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of Ancient Pompeii

  7. New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022

    Benjamin Franklin in the Lakes, the former slave who invented light bulbs, ganzflicker

  8. New Thinking: Black British Theatre. An Afro-Cuban star

    From a Black Juliet in the 18th century to Ira Aldridge’s daughter Amanda + Rita Montaner

  9. New Thinking: Being Human 2021

    Research into covid comics, codes in Dickens, projecting books onto hospital ceilings.

  10. New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data

    Lisa Mullen explores the way data can change our view of history & looks at conservation.

  11. New Thinking: Aphra Behn

    John Gallagher's guests decode changes in Behn's loyalties from her plays and dedications

  12. New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois

    Professors Olivette Otele and Simon Hall on understanding connections in black history

  13. New Thinking: About Face

    Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?

  14. New Thinking about Museums

    From VR Vikings & military museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections

  15. New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement.

    With Helen Pankhurst, Jane Robinson, Shahida Rahman, Fern Riddell and Miranda Garrett

  16. New Generation Thinkers 2022

    Laurence Scott introduces the ten academics chosen to share their research on radio

  17. New angles on post-war Germany and Austria

    Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell, Tom Smith

  18. Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

    BBC Head of News James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.

  19. Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020

    Tales of indigenous people battling for their land; colonialism & anthropology pioneers

  20. Nature Memoirs

    Rana Mitter looks at fens, flatlands, wild swimming and a little-changed Bulgarian valley

  21. Nationalisms: Jerry Brotton, Elif Shafak, John Breuilly

    Jerry Brotton talks to Rana Mitter about Elizabethan England and the Islamic World.

  22. Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality

    Gordon's play Nine Night, the life of Botswana's most influential writer, Rwanda on TV

  23. Narnia and CS Lewis

    Exploring the literary and theological terrain of C.S. Lewis's Narnia

  24. Napoleon the gardener and art thief

    Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter

  25. Napoleon in Fact & Fiction

    Napoleon impersonators, ballads and what if he didn't die in exile?

  26. Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas

    The work of Turner Prize nominees, a Tiger Bay murder story, Under Milk Wood on stage

  27. Myths, ships and history

    Anna McKay, Lloyd Belton and Oliver Finnegan delve in the deep for seafaring histories

  28. Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill

    Monsters and myths in the art of Gerald Scarfe and Kiki Smith + Caryl Churchill's plays.

  29. My Neighbour Totoro

    Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.

  30. My Neighbour Totoro

    Christopher Harding looks at the background and influence of Studio Ghibli's 1988 film

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