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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Borders: On the ground, on the map, in the mind

    From Ireland to Turkey, from soldiering to walking to photographing - with Anne McElvoy.

  2. Book Parts and Difficulty

    Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.

  3. Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future

    Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.

  4. Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922

    Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922

  5. Blackmail & Shame

    Mark Ravenhill talks about staging the play on which Hitchcock based his film

  6. Black British History

    Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on Black Britain

  7. Black Atlantic

    Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

  8. Billy Wilder

    Novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot

  9. Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski

    Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen with Matthew Sweet

  10. Bette Davis

    As the BFI prepares a season of films, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star

  11. Betrayal

    Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal

  12. Bestiaries and Beyond

    Shahidha Bari investigates the human invention of animals

  13. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality

    Anne McElvoy looks at the career of Botswana's most influential writer.

  14. Beryl Vertue

    Matthew Sweet meets the Sherlock producer and ex agent of Tony Hancock who has turned 90

  15. Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

    Shahidha Bari talks to Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

  16. Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

    Shahidha Bari talks to Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

  17. Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley

    Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university

  18. Benjamin Britten and Radio

    David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with an audience at Aldeburgh.

  19. Belonging

    A teacher's view, a Frankenstein-inspired ballet, outside status and circus paintings

  20. Belonging

    Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards

  21. Belonging

    Philip Dodd looks at our shifting sense of identity.

  22. Belief, Habit & Religion

    Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history

  23. Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.

    Matthew Sweet in Canterbury and Portsmouth uncovering stories of the lost and the found.

  24. Being Human: Love Stories

    What does who we date and how we date say about us?

  25. Being Diplomatic

    How much emotion should a diplomat, a news reporter or a conciliation expert show?

  26. Being Blonde

    Matthew Sweet discusses the genealogy of blondeness

  27. Beer, Crisps and the British pub

    Tim Martin, Natalie Whittle, Prof Philip Howell, Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Ben Wright.

  28. Bedrooms

    How have our bedrooms changed from sleeping space to work space?

  29. Back to the '80s

    Alexei Sayle and Adam Mars Jones join Matthew Sweet to revisit '80s film, tv and music

  30. Autism, film and patterns

    From Rain Man to Atypical - Matthew Sweet looks at autism on screen and in everyday life

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