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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Free Thinking: Enoch Powell; US Supreme Court; War & Art

    Birmingham Rep stages a play about Enoch Powell; John Keane & Jananne Al-Ani on war art.

  2. Free Thinking: Energy and Landscape: Edward Burtynsky, Ella Hickson

    Photographer Edward Burtynsky, playwright Ella Hickson & experts on energy policy debate.

  3. Free Thinking: Ecstasy. Carpe Diem. 2017 New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes on medieval ecstasy.

    Jules Evans and Roman Krznaric discuss living in the moment and trances with Rana Mitter.

  4. Free Thinking: Churchill, Pocahontas and The Idiot

    Anne McElvoy considers Churchill on the big screen and the legacy of Pocahontas.

  5. Free Thinking: Caravaggio; Bob Dylan; Dario Fo; Lenin's train journey.

    Caravaggio's art explored by Letizia Treves, Joe Moshenska and Anders Lustgarten.

  6. Free Thinking: Canada 150: Sydney Newman and British TV; Vahni Capildeo; Shubbak Festival 2017

    Matthew Sweet investigates the Canadian dynamo who transformed British TV drama

  7. Free Thinking: Canada 150: Identity Robbie Richardson, Alison MacLeod, Deborah Pearson + Rupi Kaur and Kevan Funk.

    New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott look at Canada in TV, poems + art

  8. Free Thinking: Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris.

    Are public enquiries good government? Plus Matthew Parris on scorn. Anne McElvoy presents

  9. Free Thinking: Breaking Free: Landmark - Paradise Lost

    John Carey, Islam Issa, Mandy Green and Joe Moshenska with Philip Dodd.

  10. Free Thinking: Breaking Free - Martin Luther’s Revolution. New Research into the Reformation

    Alec Ryrie, Tom Charlton, Elizabeth Goodwin and Tara Hamling join Rana Mitter.

  11. Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette

    Laurence Scott examines the eminent Victorians Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough.

  12. Free Thinking: Artist Tom Phillips at 80; How do we save our plants?

    Artist Tom Phillips talks to Philip Dodd about his career as he marks his 80th birthday.

  13. Free Thinking: Artes Mundi Prize. Harriet Walter. Amitav Ghosh. Edmund Richardson

    Harriet Walter prepares to play Prospero, a review of the bi-ennial art prize in Cardiff.

  14. Free Thinking: Art in the Age of Black Power; History of Racist Ideas in US

    Rana Mitter and Linton Kwesi Johnson and Ibram X Kendi

  15. Free Thinking: Anger and friendships with Pankaj Mishra and Elif Shafak.

    Novelist Elif Shafak, US magazine editor Julius Krein, Douglas Murray and Pankaj Mishra.

  16. Free Thinking: An interview with Haemin Sunim

    Haemin Sunim, the Buddhist meditation teacher, on calm in a fast-paced 21st century world

  17. Free Thinking: American Power? Suzan-Lori Parks. Gary Younge. Abstract Expressionism.

    Pulitzer prize winning American dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks. William Boyd on American art.

  18. Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model

    Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.

  19. Free Thinking: 'Play' in urban design, Gillian Allnutt

    Philip Dodd considers the importance of 'play' in the way our city centres are designed.

  20. Free Thinking: Robots, and an Icelandic Dracula

    Matthew Sweet meets Eric the UK's first robot, built in 1928 now at the Science Museum.

  21. Free Thinking: Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

    Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetery and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.

  22. Free Thinking, BBC Radiophonic Workshop

    The BBC Radiophonic workshop,opened in 1958 with an aim to experiment and produce for...

  23. Free Thinking- William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.

    South Africa and art with William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes .

  24. Free Thinking Landmark: The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Merlin Holland, Will Self and Fiona Shaw join Matthew Sweet to discuss Wilde's novel

  25. Free Thinking Landmark - The Tin Drum

    Anne McElvoy is joined by the German novelist Eugen Ruge, British author Lawrence the...

  26. Free Thinking Landmark - 1001 Nights

    It's three hundred years since the death of Antoine Galland, a French orientalist and...

  27. Free Thinking in the Summer - Hay

    Philip Dodd discusses the Problem with Love with behavioural scientist Dylan Evans, AL...

  28. Free Thinking in the Summer - Derry-Londonderry

    BBC Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas continues its summer of activity...

  29. Free Thinking in the Summer - Chalke

    BBC Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas continues its summer of activity...

  30. Free Thinking in the Summer

    Rana Mitter chairs a debate from the York Festival of Ideas on whether we can afford...

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