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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

    Helen Mort and Blake Morrison talk mentoring. Oulipo: rules for writing in 1960s Paris.

  2. Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

    Helen Mort and Blake Morrison talk mentoring. Oulipo: rules for writing in 1960s Paris.

  3. Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard

    Anne McElvoy and sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld, artist Dale Harding, writer Stella Tillyard

  4. Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard

    Sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld and Australian artist Dale Harding talk memory and moving on

  5. Heidegger & Antisemitism

    Matthew Sweet discusses the influential German philosopher's relationship with Nazism

  6. Hegel's Philosophy of Right

    Anne McElvoy listens for echoes of Beethoven in Hegel

  7. Has Social Media Cracked the Code to the Crowd?

    Julia Hobsbawm, Jamie Bartlett, Laurence Scott and Abeba Birhane with Anne McElvoy.

  8. Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

    Web guru Tim O'Reilly; the magical worlds of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman, Tove Jansson

  9. Harry Belafonte

    The long career of the American singer, film star & activist with Matthew Sweet & guests

  10. Harry Belafonte

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the career of the American singer, film star and activist

  11. Harlots & 18th Century Working Women

    History & Harlots: Hallie Rubenhold & Moira Buffini on the C18th sex worker TV drama

  12. Hannah Arendt's exploration of Totalitarianism

    Why do Hannah Arendt's ideas continue to fire the imaginations of artists and thinkers?

  13. Halloween. Ghost Stories

    Haunting stories with Kirsty Logan, Jeremy Dyson & host Shahidha Bari

  14. Gwendolyn Brooks

    Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of the Pulitzer prize winning American poet 1917-2000

  15. Gut instinct

    From gut feelings in your stomach to the language of disgust: Matthew Sweet hosts

  16. Groundbreaking history books

    Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published.

  17. Ground-breaking history books

    Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published.

  18. Grief

    Matthew Sweet and guests look at the role of ritual, laments and how we express grief.

  19. Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?

    From ice photos by Wayne Binitie to 140 ideas from artists collated by Hans Ulrich Obrist

  20. Greek myth, goddesses and art

    From classic myths rewritten by Natalie Haynes to the art of John Craxton in Crete

  21. Greed and Landownership Past, Present, Future

    Historian Tom Devine, Colombian novelist, Hector Abad and economist Paul Collier

  22. Going Underground

    Shahidha Bari and guests discuss caves: from Nottingham to Borneo, in art and stories.

  23. Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics

    Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena joins Anne McElvoy

  24. Goddesses of academia

    Nikita Gill, Francesca Wade, Sandeep Parmar & Victoria Leonard talk goddesses & classics

  25. Goddesses

    Christopher Harding explores the feminine divine with Ronald Hutton and others

  26. God's Body

    Matthew Sweet is joined by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Mark Vernon and Hetta Howes

  27. Gloves

    From python skin to digital worlds, PPE to vegan materials: how gloves are evolving.

  28. Glitches

    Novelist Tom McCarthy joins Matthew Sweet to explore glitches and what they tell us

  29. Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Matthew Sweet & guests including Glenda Jackson on John Schlesinger's love triangle film

  30. Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

    With the death of Glenda Jackson announced here's a conversation she recorded last year

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