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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Knowing When To Stop

    From art to activism, campaigning to cabaret, Shahidha Bari asks when is enough enough?

  2. Knees

    From dance to prayer, knees ups to kneeling

  3. Kingship and ceremony

    Anne McElvoy looks at royalty, pomp and glory in opera, ancient Persia and Tudor England.

  4. Kindness

    Rutger Bregman tells Anne McElvoy why survival of the fittest needs rethinking as an idea

  5. Kevin Fong

    Kevin Fong, who presents BBC2's Horizon and is a leading expert on space medicine, a 3...

  6. Ken Burns – Flash photography - Joy

    The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale & Kate Flint.

  7. Kawanabe Kyōsai and Yukio Mishima

    Japanese cultural experimentation: painter, Kyōsai 1831-1889 & writer, Mishima 1925-1970

  8. Katherine Mansfield & Mavis Gallant

    Claire Harman, Kirsty Gunn, Laurence Scott and Shahidha Bari discuss short story writing

  9. Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal

    Girl power past and present, the wisdom of goats and seagulls and Kant's ideas on reason

  10. Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido

    Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.

  11. Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens

    Bureaucracies of the soul satirised in novels. Matthew Sweet's guests include Lea Ypi.

  12. Julian the Apostate

    We examine Rome's last pagan ruler via Ibsen's drama to apostasy in contemporary politics

  13. Julian Savulescu - The Moral Obligation to Improve

    Julian Savulescu, Oxford Professor of Ethics, makes the case for human enhancement and...

  14. Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe

    Shahidha Bari hears about two inspirational medieval women mystics who wrote about faith

  15. Jordan B Peterson

    Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets the YouTube star.

  16. Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art. History of British nature writing.

    Anne McElvoy on art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light filled room...

  17. Jonathan Coe and Richard Cameron on stage at Birmingham Rep

    Matthew Sweet talks to Jonathan Coe about the first stage production of The Rotter's Club

  18. John Rawls's A Theory of Justice

    The lasting impact of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice on philosophy and politics.

  19. John Milton's Samson Agonistes

    Rana Mitter looks at how politics, blindness and the Bible fed into this dramatic poem

  20. John McGrath's Scottish Drama

    Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

  21. John Maynard Keynes

    From HM Treasury to Versailles and Bloomsbury: a look at the life and legacy of JM Keynes

  22. John Knox

    A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

  23. John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism

    Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.

  24. John Cowper Powys

    John Gray, Iain Sinclair, Margaret Drabble and Kevan Manwaring on 'the Dorset Proust'

  25. Jewish Identity in 2020

    Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, and Jonathan Freedland join Matthew Sweet.

  26. Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley

    Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness

  27. Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave

    The French film star who burst onto the scene in 1960 in Godard's Breathless

  28. Japan Now 2020

    Philip Dodd talks to Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, Yukiko Motoya, and Motoyuki Shibata

  29. Japan and Nature

    The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy

  30. Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak

    Two campaigning women talk to Matthew Sweet.

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