Free Thinking Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking - Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm.
Philip Dodd looks at Latin America with writers Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro.
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Free Thinking - Jane Mayer Dark Money - Money & US Politics - Flora Nwapa's Efuru - African Literature - Emma Cline The Girls
Emma Cline on cults and teenage girls, and we reread Flora Nwapa's pioneering novel Efuru
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Free Thinking - Bhupen Khakhar. The City State of London? Saskia Sassen, Jane Morris, David Anderson and Pat Kane.
Philip Dodd explores the art of Bhupen Khakhar as a retrospective opens at Tate Modern.
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Free Thinking - Beauty: Dame Fiona Reynolds. The Bowes Museum. David Willetts on The State.
Anne McElvoy talks to Dame Fiona Reynolds about preserving beauty in the countryside.
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Free Thinking
Karl Ove Knausgård talks to Philip Dodd in a programme looking at Scandinavia today.
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Free Thinking
Karl Ove Knausgård talks to Philip Dodd in a programme looking at Scandinavia today.
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Free speech, censorship and modern China
The writings of Chinese women, from Ding Ling to coming of age in the 1990s
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Frantz Fanon
Re-reading the major 20th century theorist of decolonisation
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Frankenstein and AI now.
Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H. Guston with Matthew Sweet.
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Frank Ramsey
Shahidha Bari looks at the life and legacy of the 20th century polymath
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
The screenwriter and novelist talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting Britain in his work.
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Francis Wells
One of the world's top heart surgeons, Francis Wells, discusses the future of the his...
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Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot.
Rana Mitter explores identity forest landscapes and the long impact of the Ottoman empire
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Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the 1974 Gene Hackman film about surveillance and murder
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France, music hall and history
An outdoor history of France and a look inside popular French theatre's view on Britain
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Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4
Shahidha Bari reads Robert Hurley's new English translation
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Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner
Director Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore & Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet
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Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan
How food impacts on the environment; Richard Flanagan on his novel about a dying planet
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Finding my tribe
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss connections, divisions and creating new political parties
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Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Glenda Jackson talks to Matthew Sweet about John Schlesinger's 1971 love triangle drama
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Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Glenda Jackson talks to Matthew Sweet about John Schlesinger's 1971 love triangle drama
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Fighting Women
How women have fought on the frontline from antiquity to the present day
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Female power and influence past and present
Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro
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Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture
Historian of emotions Professor Thomas Dixon, Matthew Sweet & the Sage Gateshead audience
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Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security
Food for thought? Eleanor Barraclough hosts Vicky Avery, Priya Basil, and Maia Elliott.
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Fashion, Art, and the Body
Olivia Laing, Charlie Porter, and Ekow Eshun join Shahidha Bari
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Family ties and reshaping history
From Neanderthals to Sikh warriors to the idea of ‘WEIRD’ people, 3 authors look at kin
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Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil
From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.
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Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life
Philosophers Daniel Dennett, Philip Goff, podcaster Liz Oldfield & a faith museum curator
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Failure and female friendship
Lara Feigel, Michèle Roberts & New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza with Shahidha Bari
