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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Friendship

    Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people

  2. French writing and politics

    Leïla Slimani, President Macron's champion of French culture and language, is interviewed

  3. Free Thinking. Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World

    The Northern Irish author of Cal talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break

  4. Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration

    Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.

  5. Free Thinking: Young Marx, Yanis Varoufakis and Ruth Lea and Tara Bergin

    Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman

  6. Free Thinking: Yaa Gyasi. Daniel Levitin. Peter Bazalgette, James Bartholomew on Clarity, Civility and Strong States.

    Tooling a stronger civil society plus a novel on Slavery on both sides of the Atlantic.

  7. Free Thinking: Will Self, R. D. Laing and Mandy.

    Matthew Sweet talks to Will Self about the mind, consciousness and R. D. Laing.

  8. Free Thinking: Wells' Women

    As the London Literature Festival opens, HG Wells: women, politics and four dimensions.

  9. Free Thinking: Washing in public. Sir Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)

    Public pools, the "steamie" and the Turkish bath are explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

  10. Free Thinking: Tom McCarthy. Jacobitism; Satirical Indexes; A Museum of Modern Nature

    Anne McElvoy looks at Bonnie Prince Charlie and Nature exhibitions & meets Tom McCarthy.

  11. Free Thinking: The Wolfson Prize

    Rana Mitter is joined by the 6 shortlisted authors and an audience at the British Academy

  12. Free Thinking: The War of the Worlds sequel, Eimear McBride

    Matthew Sweet talks to Stephen Baxter about his sequel to HG Wells's novel.

  13. Free Thinking: The importance of networks; the art of dance.

    Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.

  14. Free Thinking: The Desert: Geoff Dyer, Laurence Scott, Georgia O'Keeffe

    Georgia O'Keeffe images of New Mexico at Tate and Matthew Sweet looks at deserts

  15. Free Thinking: The Arts of Running

    Artists Kai Syng Tan and Angus Farquhar join Hayden Lorimer and Vybarr Cregan-Reid.

  16. Free Thinking: Terrorism

    Rana Mitter and guests look at fact and fiction as they explore how terrorism works.

  17. Free Thinking: Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All

    Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch and some Victorian jokes

  18. Free Thinking: Soviet Histories: Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

    Svetlana Alexeivich on Soviet oral history as literature and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.

  19. Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: People Power

    Philip Dodd and guests discuss Clement Attlee's legacy, people power and cultural tastes.

  20. Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: People Power

    Philip Dodd and guests discuss Clement Attlee's legacy, people power and cultural tastes.

  21. Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman

    The authors talk electric shocks, Shakespeare and the power of women with Philip Dodd.

  22. Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers - Teju Cole

    From Baldwin to Black Lives Matter. Philip Dodd talks to Teju Cole

  23. Free Thinking: Social Conservatism, Kathe Kollwitz and John Ashbery

    Art and irony - Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna on the Käthe Kollwitz show in Birmingham

  24. Free Thinking: Sleep - Freedom to Think

    Russell Foster, leading neuroscientist, with the Free Thinking lecture, The Speed of Life

  25. Free Thinking: Shelina Janmohamed. Edward Ardizzone's Art. Jewish identity in fiction

    Shelina Janmohamed explores "Generation M". Plus Edward Ardizzone's daughter on his art.

  26. Free Thinking: Salomé, Angels in America, Queer British Art

    Philip Dodd looks at desire & politics as Angels in America runs at the National Theatre

  27. Free Thinking: Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.

    Anne McElvoy talks to Anne Applebaum about Russian and Ukrainian history.

  28. Free Thinking: Russian Art and Revolution

    Dolya Gavanski, Stephen Smith, Victor Sebestyen, Charlotte Hobson and Anne McElvoy.

  29. Free Thinking: Rachel Seiffert. James Hawes,Richard Nelson. 2017 New Gen Thinker Alistair Fraser on gangs

    Anne McElvoy explores German Russian history, US electioneering and crime with her guests

  30. Free Thinking: Professor Paul Gilroy

    Philip Dodd is in extended conversation about culture & race with Professor Paul Gilroy.

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