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Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
Maryse Condé's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan
45 mins; April 20, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire
13 mins; April 19, 2021
The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins
44 mins; April 15, 2021
Jacques Tati's Trafic
45 mins; April 14, 2021
Octavia Butler's Kindred
44 mins; April 13, 2021
Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
44 mins; April 08, 2021
Milton: Samson Agonistes
44 mins; April 08, 2021
John Milton's Samson Agonistes
44 mins; April 07, 2021
The Liverpool Biennial debate
44 mins; April 06, 2021
Spy talk
45 mins; April 01, 2021
From Blackface to Beyoncé
44 mins; March 31, 2021
Writing About Faith
45 mins; March 30, 2021
Churchill's reputation
44 mins; March 25, 2021
Pleasure
46 mins; March 24, 2021
Frantz Fanon
44 mins; March 23, 2021
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
13 mins; March 19, 2021
Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
14 mins; March 18, 2021
Syria: hope and poetry
45 mins; March 18, 2021
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
13 mins; March 17, 2021
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
44 mins; March 17, 2021
Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman
13 mins; March 16, 2021
New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?
44 mins; March 16, 2021
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard
14 mins; March 15, 2021
Edward Said's thinking
45 mins; March 12, 2021
The Vietnam Paris connection
44 mins; March 11, 2021
New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk
44 mins; March 09, 2021
Speech, Voice, Accents and AI Free Thinking
44 mins; March 04, 2021
Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith
44 mins; March 03, 2021
New Thinking: Girls
43 mins; March 02, 2021
Saint John Henry Newman
45 mins; March 01, 2021
Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4
44 mins; February 25, 2021
Humans, Animals, Ecologies
56 mins; February 24, 2021
Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien & Violette Leduc
45 mins; February 19, 2021
Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history
45 mins; February 17, 2021
Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies
44 mins; February 16, 2021
Coins, the magic money tree and a cashless world
44 mins; February 12, 2021
Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)
44 mins; February 10, 2021
New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums
44 mins; February 09, 2021
Class and social mobility
44 mins; February 04, 2021
Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman
44 mins; February 03, 2021
New Thinking: Eco-Criticism
44 mins; February 02, 2021
What Makes a Good Lecture?
45 mins; January 30, 2021
Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France
43 mins; January 27, 2021
Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan
44 mins; January 26, 2021
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice
44 mins; January 21, 2021
James Baldwin and race in USA
44 mins; January 20, 2021
Harlots & 18th Century Working Women
44 mins; January 19, 2021
Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil
45 mins; January 14, 2021
New Thinking: Women and Slavery
43 mins; January 13, 2021
Autism, film and patterns
45 mins; January 12, 2021
New Thinking: Aphra Behn
44 mins; January 08, 2021
Dostoevsky
44 mins; January 06, 2021
Mildred Pierce
45 mins; January 05, 2021
Marlene Dietrich
44 mins; December 17, 2020
Winter Light
45 mins; December 16, 2020
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
44 mins; December 15, 2020
Ancient wisdom & remote living
44 mins; December 10, 2020
New Thinking: Hey Presto!
44 mins; December 09, 2020
New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health
53 mins; December 09, 2020
The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age
44 mins; December 08, 2020
Times of Change
51 mins; December 03, 2020
Mould-Breaking Writing
44 mins; December 01, 2020
When Shakespeare Travelled with Me
13 mins; November 27, 2020
Leadership & authority
45 mins; November 26, 2020
Politician and Pioneer
13 mins; November 26, 2020
Beastly Politics
13 mins; November 25, 2020
Bedrooms
44 mins; November 24, 2020
Byron, celebrity and fan mail
14 mins; November 24, 2020
Should biographers imitate their subjects?
13 mins; November 23, 2020
Democracy, Hong Kong and USA
44 mins; November 19, 2020
Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo
45 mins; November 18, 2020
New Thinking: Films and Research
43 mins; November 18, 2020
New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries
43 mins; November 13, 2020
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
45 mins; November 12, 2020
The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
44 mins; November 11, 2020
Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
45 mins; November 10, 2020
Billy Wilder
45 mins; November 05, 2020
New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture
43 mins; November 04, 2020
War in fact and fiction
44 mins; November 03, 2020
Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
45 mins; October 29, 2020
Individualism and Community
45 mins; October 29, 2020
The post-Covid city
45 mins; October 27, 2020
The Writing of Aime Cesaire
44 mins; October 22, 2020
Polari Prize winners
44 mins; October 21, 2020
Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
49 mins; October 20, 2020
Post Truth & Derrida
53 mins; October 15, 2020
Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid
44 mins; October 14, 2020
New Thinking about Museums
44 mins; October 13, 2020
The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
45 mins; October 08, 2020
Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
44 mins; October 06, 2020
New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois
44 mins; October 02, 2020
Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
45 mins; October 01, 2020
Cows in culture and soil
54 mins; September 30, 2020
Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020
44 mins; September 29, 2020
Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures
44 mins; September 24, 2020
New Thinking: The impact of being multilingual
44 mins; September 23, 2020
Get Carter
45 mins; September 22, 2020
Family ties and reshaping history
44 mins; September 17, 2020
New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History
48 mins; September 16, 2020
Piranesi and disturbing archecture
45 mins; September 15, 2020
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