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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Ginger Rogers

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star's dancing, comic timing and "sass".

  2. Gifts and Gratitude

    Following Thanksgiving, and as Christmas approaches, Shahidha Bari on giving and receiving

  3. Ghostwatch

    Matthew Sweet on the 1992 TV horror

  4. Ghosts, death and ecstatic states

    Shahidha Bari with Irving Finkel, Simon Critchley, Chris Harding & Hetta Howes

  5. Ghosts of the Spanish civil war

    Breaking the silence: filmmakers, a novelist and historian on the recent Spanish past.

  6. Ghosts of Caribbean History

    New writing by Colin Grant and Kevin Jared Hosein; art by Mary Evans and Michael Elliott

  7. Get Carter

    Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges.

  8. Get Carter

    Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges

  9. Germaine Greer

    Germaine Greer delivers a talk questioning the pursuit of freedom at the BBC Radio 3...

  10. George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri

    One poet and two writers in conversation about language, migrants and personhood

  11. George Bernard Shaw

    Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950)

  12. Gentrification

    Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. + artist Lucinda Rogers

  13. Genes, racism, ageing and evidence

    Daniel Levitin on ageing & Adam Rutherford on race and genetics.

  14. Generations - D-Day - Global Instability

    Eliza Filby, Rana Mitter, Jo Hamya, Tom Simpson, plus Gaby Hinsliff

  15. Gangs, the Usual Suspects

    Symeon Brown, James Docherty, Alistair Fraser chaired by Matthew Sweet.

  16. Gandhi's power, portable citizenship & Indian writing - China's missing film star

    Gandhi's power, portable citizenship & Indian writing with Rana Mitter & Amit Chaudhuri.

  17. Gandhi, Indian Architecture

    Rana Mitter looks at a new play at the National Theatre about the man who murdered Gandhi

  18. Gambling, good leadership and economic history

    Anne McElvoy looks at betting, economics and the leadership of US presidents

  19. Galatea and Shakespeare

    Trans narratives in pre-Shakespearian drama plus Twelfth Night and the First Folio.

  20. Futurism

    Matthew Sweet and guests look at the manifesto celebrating youth, technology and violence

  21. Futurism

    Matthew Sweet explores into the movement that celebrated technology, vitality, violence

  22. Future Thinking

    Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen, Riel Miller, Sarah Dillon & Rupert Read with Matthew Sweet

  23. Fungi: An Alien Encounter

    Are fungi out to get us or here to help? A look at mushrooms in art, food and psychology.

  24. Fungi: An Alien Encounter

    Are fungi out to get us or here to help? A look at mushrooms in art, food and psychology.

  25. Fun Home, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter

    Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA

  26. From The Spains to LatinX

    Rana Mitter talks to Jason Webster, Ed Morales, Iain Sinclair and Iwona Blazwick.

  27. From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living

    Matthew Sweet visits The Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.

  28. From Blackface to Beyoncé

    From the theatre stage to the Superbowl, in praise of Black performance

  29. Frieze: Museums in the 21st century

    Anne McElvoy talks to the directors at London's National Gallery, Yale and New York's Met

  30. Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate

    Museum directors from Asia and France join Anne McElvoy and an audience at RIBA.

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