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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Authority in the Era of Populism

    Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts & Rupert Reid w/ Anne McElvoy

  2. Authority

    Anne McElvoy and guests discuss authority in politics, business and education.

  3. Australian novelist Peter Carey.

    A car race around Australia is fictionalised in Peter Carey's latest novel + Ovid's tales

  4. Audrey Hepburn

    Matthew Sweet marks the 30th anniversary of the death of this icon of film and fashion.

  5. Asta Nielsen

    Matthew Sweet on the life of Danish film star Asta Nielsen, one of cinema's first icons.

  6. AS Byatt and The Children's Book

    AS Byatt discussed her writing life with Matthew Sweet as she published a novel in 2009

  7. Artists' models and fame

    Egon Schiele's women, Whistler's woman in white, new radio ballads : Shahidha Bari hosts.

  8. Art, Kew, a symphony and nature

    Artist Mat Collishaw, composer Jimmy López Bellido, academics Vid Simoniti & Sarah Casey

  9. Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.

    Writing about the Holocaust + the shock of Modernism in 1930s Britain

  10. Are we being manipulated?

    Who's pulling your strings - Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders

  11. Are we all American now?

    3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter

  12. Are We Afraid of Being Alone?

    Sara Maitland, Lionel Shriver, and John-Henry Clay explore solitude.

  13. Are the arts saving Margate?

    Investigating regeneration and gentrification in the new arts hub.

  14. Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales

    From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real

  15. Approaches to death

    Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper

  16. Appeasement

    How does Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler in 1938 affect politics in 2022?

  17. Anxiety and the Teenage Brain

    Stephen Briers, Caroline Dower and Ceyda Uzun join Anne McElvoy at Sage Gateshead.

  18. Anxiety

    Comedian Sofie Hagen, Colombian novelist Héctor Abad & Isabel Hardman join Shahidha Bari.

  19. Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden

    Shahidha Bari talks to a pair of writers about routines & knowing how to start and stop.

  20. Anne Enright + the value of gossip

    Anne Enright discusses acting with Daisy Black, Emily Butterworth and Marie Le Conte.

  21. Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland

    Politics and friendship and the lives of Ingrid Bergman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

  22. Anna Kavan

    Matthew Sweet reads Ice and other works of this experimental writer who died in 1968

  23. Anger.

    Philip Dodd considers rage in the politics of the US and India

  24. Ancient wisdom & remote living

    From medieval science to the ingenuity of Arctic peoples & the resilience of island life

  25. Anarchism and David Graeber

    Matthew Sweet and guests look at the ideas of American anthropologist (1961-2020).

  26. An insider's view of war

    Ex-Marine & journalist Elliot Ackerman on Al Qaeda and the Iraq War. Rana Mitter presents

  27. Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.

    Amitav Ghosh on linking refugees, climate change, Venice & Bengali forests in his fiction

  28. Amílcar Cabral

    Rana Mitter and guests discuss the pan-Africanist poet and anti-colonial leader.

  29. Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy

    The Right to Sex is the title of Amia Srinivasan's new book. Christopher Harding hosts.

  30. American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.

    Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman plus the careers picked by psychopaths.

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