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  1. Free Thinking Essay: When Shakespeare Travelled With Me

    Islam Issa on arguments about Shakespeare in 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop in the 21st century

  2. Free Thinking Essay: What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?

    Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, on AI and Douglas Adams.

  3. Free Thinking Essay: Welling Up: Women & Water in the Middle Ages

    Hetta Howes looks at male fears + why Margery Kempe was criticised for crying & bleeding.

  4. Free Thinking Essay: Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present

    Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and now.

  5. Free Thinking Essay: Russia's Sacred Ruins

    Victoria Donovan on the dilemmas of post-war reconstruction in Soviet Russia.

  6. Free Thinking Essay: Monks, Models and Medieval Time

    Seb Falk on the 14th century monks who studied astronomy, a world of science & religion.

  7. Free Thinking Essay: Killing Time in Imperial Japan

    Christopher Harding explores the Tokyo of a century ago when 'time' was hotly contested.

  8. Free Thinking Essay: Kids With Guns

    Emma Butcher looks at the view of war in the childhood writings of the Bronte family.

  9. Free Thinking Essay: England's First European

    John Gallagher marks the 400th anniversary of Fynes Moryson's great travel book.

  10. Free Thinking Essay: Educating Ida

    Eleanor Lybeck on the women campaigners satirised in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.

  11. Free Thinking Essay: Doing Nothing

    Alastair Fraser on teenagers, gangs and filling time.

  12. Free Thinking Essay: Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?

    Tom Simpson on a study of suspicion in a 1950s Italian village & community relations now

  13. Free Thinking Essay: Alexander the Great's Lost City

    New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson with a story linking Egypt and Afghanistan.

  14. Free Thinking Essay: A War of Words

    Christopher Bannister on the way a fashion show in Buenos Aires helped win World War II.

  15. Free Thinking 2013 - Twenty Minutes - An Interview with Neil Tennant

    Neil Tennant, singer of pop duo Pet Shop Boys, grew up in the fishing port of North to...

  16. Free Thinking 2012 - Martin Goodman

    Martin Goodman, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the perils...

  17. Free Thinking 2012 - Hell is Other People

    As our global population increases and technology encourages instant communication, we...

  18. Free Thinking - Sounds of Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Bookshelf

    Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books which inspired Shakespeare

  19. Free Thinking - Feature: Bamburgh Castle

    Dr Alun Withey researches an 18th C healthcare scheme at Bamburg Castle in Northumberland

  20. Free Thinking

    This week's Arts & Ideas podcast features extracts from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.

  21. Free Love, Catholicism, Roger Corman, Red Dog

    With Matthew Sweet. French philosopher Pascal Bruckner and the author Lisa Appignanesi...

  22. Frank Cottrell Boyce, Lisa Jardine and the street versus the internet

    Frank Cottrell Boyce on the joys of failure; Lisa Jardine and her scientist father's -...

  23. Francis Fukuyama, train murders, Dining with Alice, Vidal Sassoon

    Francis Fukuyama talks about his new book. A discussion about train murders.

  24. Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns

    Jade Halbert looks at the designs inspired by English history created by Angela Holmes

  25. Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history

    Tom Smith links school blazers and clothes worn by East German soldiers to clubbing

  26. Fashion Stories: In a handbag

    Shahidha Bari looks at what the contents of a handbag can tell us

  27. Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring

    Lauren Working explores the Cavalier look from Charles I to Harry Styles

  28. Fashion Stories: Body Armour

    Sophie Oliver looks at a Mina Loy corselet and the history of reshaping bodies

  29. Facing Facts

    From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to people's faces

  30. Facing Facts

    From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to people's faces

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