Free Thinking Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking Festival - Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong, one of the world's leading thinkers about religion, gives the Free in...
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Free Thinking Festival - In Conversation With Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins explores religion, culture and science talking to Philip Dodd.
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Free Thinking Festival - From Flat Caps
Anne McElvoy explores whether it is worth getting hot under the collar about blue with...
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Free Thinking Festival - Free Information
The Cost of Free Information. Against a backdrop of perceived excess of intellectual a...
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Free Thinking Festival - Fear or Wonder
Naomi Alderman, Roger Luckhurst and BALTIC curator Alessandro Vincentelli join Matthew...
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Free Thinking Festival - Elif Shafak
Turkey's best selling female writer, Elif Shafak, talks to Anne McElvoy about and as...
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Free Thinking Festival - Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's finest writers, whose books explore issues such as and...
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Free Thinking Festival - Characters
Knowing Your Characters. Matthew Sweet talks to playwright David Greig and actor about...
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Free Thinking Festival - Breathalysing Britain: Free Spirits or a Drain on Society?
David Yelland, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Dr Sally Marlow and Prof Barry Smith on alcohol
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Free Thinking Festival - Breaking News - Telling Stories in Fact and Fiction
Bim Adewunmi John Yorke Emily Woof and Allan Little join Matthew Sweet at Sage Gateshead
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Free Thinking Festival - Animals
Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other. Rana Mitter talks to the of at...
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Free Thinking Essay: The Human Copying Machine
New Generation Thinker Tiffany Watt-Smith explores mirroring and a nineteenth-century...
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Free Thinking Essay: Scold The Front Page
New Generation Thinker Tom Charlton on what 17th-century ideas about censorship share...
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Free Thinking Essay: Beards and Whiskers
Historian Alun Withey says beards can shed light on a whole range of things from to...
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Free Thinking Essay - Women's Theatre
Naomi Paxton from the University of Manchester explores the international movement for...
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Free Thinking Essay - The Spin Doctors
The Spin Doctors of 19th-Century America. Embracing the emerging sciences of the age,...
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Free Thinking Essay - Speech Before Words
Where did language come from? It's often been described as the fundamental barrier and...
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Free Thinking Essay - Shakespeare & India
Drawing on Shakespeare's plays and Indian translations of them from recent times - and...
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Free Thinking Essay - Disraeli the Romantic
Daisy Hay from Exeter University explores the way in which Disraeli invented the as a...
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Free Thinking Essay - Beastly Politics
Is man the only political beast? Can other animals be regarded as members of our with...
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Free Thinking Churchill & Englishness 21Jan15
Philip Dodd plus guests David Reynolds, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Simon Heffer and David...
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Free Thinking at Uproot Festival
Author David Mark and poet Adelle Stripe join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Hull Truck.
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Free Thinking at the Hay Festival: Responsibility
Baroness Hale, Philippa Perry, Guto Harri and Simon Critchley join Shahidha Bari at Hay
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Free Thinking 2013 - Zamyatin's We
Yevgeny Zamyatin's experiences in the Tyne shipyards fed into his dystopian fable was...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Wombs on Legs?
From HG Wells and Margaret Atwood to Battlestar Galactica, science fiction texts and a...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?
Can a map reveal too much? How do they direct our thinking? From ancient atlases to to...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Whose Strife
Whose Strife Is It Anyway? Amit Chaudhuri, Gaiutra Bahadur and Aamer Ahmed Khan of the...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Who's Got Hold of Children's Imaginations?
As we strive to protect our children’s imaginations from negative influences, are we...
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Free Thinking 2013 - What's Eating You?
What is the place of food and body image in contemporary culture? Lionel Shriver is of...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Therapy Versus Prayer
Is the idea of counselling as non-judgmental listening flawed? New Generation Thinker...
