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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Ice

    Anne McElvoy & guests travel to the frozen ends of the Earth & C17 theatrical magic...

  2. Ibsen

    New interpretations of the Norwegian dramatist's plays from Lucinda Coxon & Steve Waters.

  3. Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam

    A pair of authors due to be at the Bradford Literature Festival compare notes on writing.

  4. Humours and The Body

    From mitochondrial medicine to 17th century cancer treatments, via Bach's Cantatas

  5. Humility

    From Spinoza's thinking to the "humble brag" - Matthew Sweet and guests explore humility.

  6. Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter

    For World Soil Day, a celebration of art, research and ideas to revive the earth

  7. Humans, Animals, Ecologies

    Matthew Sweet in conversation with two radical thinkers: Joanna Bourke and Anna Tsing

  8. Howard Jacobson

    Writer Howard Jacobson with a keynote lecture on why we need the novel.

  9. How we think about evil

    Matthew Sweet and guests pick up from this year's Reith lectures and look at ideas of evil

  10. How we see pregnancy past and present

    Anne McElvoy hears the story of a woman who gave birth to rabbits and the news from Davos

  11. How We Read

    Our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text explored by Matthew Sweet.

  12. How To Make A Modernist Masterpiece

    Will Self, Alexandra Harris, Kevin LeGendre & Owen Hatherley build up a Manifesto

  13. How They Manipulate Our Emotions

    Ad execs, game designers and VR creatives are all toying with our feelings - is that OK?

  14. How do we look at Art?

    Catherine Fletcher with Vid Simoniti; Cleo Hanaway-Oakley; Lamin Fofana and Sally Booth

  15. How do we build a new masculinity ?

    Sunil Gupta, CN Lester, Tom Shakespeare & Alona Pardo with Matthew Sweet

  16. How do we build a new masculinity ?

    Sunil Gupta, CN Lester, Tom Shakespeare & Alona Pardo with Matthew Sweet

  17. How Big Should the State Be?

    David Willetts, Polly Toynbee, Simone Finn, Julia Black & Adrian Wooldridge at LSE.

  18. How archictecture shapes society

    Ricky Burdett, Liza Fior, Des Fitzgerald, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Edwin Heathcote at LSE

  19. How anthropology helps us understand the world

    Economist Gillian Tett is one of Anne McElvoy's guests.

  20. How anthropology helps us understand the world

    Economist Gillian Tett is one of Anne McElvoy's guests.

  21. Housework

    Gender, class & domestic tasks-Matthew Sweet pulls on his rubber gloves and gets stuck in

  22. Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

    Matthew Sweet looks at the experiences of Portuguese Jewish and Roma communities.

  23. Holocaust history

    Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day (Jan 27) Anne McElvoy hears testimony and new research

  24. Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine

    Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the week exploring the ideas shaping our lives today

  25. Hobbes and New Leviathans

    John Gray on why re-reading Hobbes can help us understand contemporary politics

  26. Hitchhiking

    Matthew Sweet considers examples from Texas Chainsaw Massacre to a system of Polish tokens

  27. Hitchhiking

    Matthew Sweet and guests consider hitchiking in culture and around the globe.

  28. History - the long and short of it

    Peter Frankopan, Alison Light, Bronwen Maddox & Zeinab Badawi join Matthew Sweet

  29. Hilma af Klint

    The spiritual paintings of the Swedish artist are discussed by Matthew Sweet and guests

  30. Higher Education for women and working class students

    Anne McElvoy hosts a conversation about higher education and the history of its expansion

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