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Free Thinking Episodes

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    The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion.

    Alan Johnson, Pascale Petit, Hisham Matar and Peter Pomerantsev join Eleanor Barraclough.

  2. Landmark: Audre Lorde

    Jackie Kay and Selina Thompson on the influential US writer and civil rights activist.

  3. Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers

    From techno music in Berlin to the Glasgow ‘rag trade’, and divisive dams to fake news.

  4. 20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World

    Aatish Taseer, Veronica Strang and Thomas Dixon at the Free Thinking Festival.

  5. Does My Pet Love Me?

    A Free Thinking Festival discussion with Nicky Clayton, Erica Fudge and Kim Bard.

  6. The New Age of Sentimentality

    Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Hewitt and Irenosen Okojie at the Free Thinking Festival.

  7. Why We Need Weepies

    From Bambi and Titanic to EastEnders - Matthew Sweet asks what makes us cry and why?

  8. Should Doctors Cry?

    Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age?

  9. The Unsaid

    Sarah Moss, Una, Michael Richardson and Harriet Shawcross at the Free Thinking Festival.

  10. The Way We Used To Feel

    From Neanderthals via Tudor England to Chartists - four historians on emotion in the past.

  11. How They Manipulate Our Emotions

    An adman, VR creator, gamer, psychologist and Shahidha Bari at the Free Thinking Festival.

  12. The Emotions of Now

    What's the most pertinent emotion in 2019 UK: Joy, anger, anxiety, schadenfreude or shame?

  13. 'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get.

    Suffragism, black activism & Brexit. Shahidha Bari chairs a Free Thinking Festival debate.

  14. Being Diplomatic

    Anne McElvoy talks to Gabrielle Rifkind, William J Burns and Gabriel Gatehouse.

  15. Anxiety and the Teenage Brain

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

  16. Crimes of Passion

    David Wilson, Sophie Hannah and Michael Hughes with Matthew Sweet at Sage.

  17. Feelings, and feelings, and feelings

    Thomas Dixon, first director of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.

  18. Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?

    Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

  19. Betrayal

    Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal.

  20. Childhood faces and fears

    A history of orphans, fears about brainwashing and portraits on show at Compton Verney.

  21. Empathy

    Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey and AK Benjamin discuss empathy with Chris Harding.

  22. Jhumpa Lahiri, Valeria Luiselli, George Szirtes

    Two writers and a poet in conversation about language, migrants and personhood.

  23. Partition, colonial power and the voices of 16th-century women

    With Hew Locke, Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra and Anindya Raychaudhuri.

  24. The Council Estate in Culture

    With George Shaw, Kader Attia, Dreda Say Mitchell, Katie Beswick and Matthew Sweet.

  25. Is British Culture Getting Weirder? Free Thinking at the Late Junction Festival

    Gazelle Twin, Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner and William Fowler.

  26. Women, relationships and the law past and present

    Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay.

  27. David Bailey, Don McCullin

    Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.

  28. Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft

    Laurence Scott and Will Self talk about redundant features in design.

  29. Authority in the Era of Populism

    Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts, Rupert Reid and Anne McElvoy.

  30. Jack the Ripper and women as victims

    Hallie Rubenhold, Emma Jenkins, Dr Kate Lister and Ruth Ware join Matthew Sweet.

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