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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Free Thinking: Russian Art and Revolution

    Dolya Gavanski, Stephen Smith, Victor Sebestyen, Charlotte Hobson and Anne McElvoy.

  2. Free Thinking: Rachel Seiffert. James Hawes,Richard Nelson. 2017 New Gen Thinker Alistair Fraser on gangs

    Anne McElvoy explores German Russian history, US electioneering and crime with her guests

  3. Free Thinking: Professor Paul Gilroy

    Philip Dodd is in extended conversation about culture & race with Professor Paul Gilroy.

  4. Free Thinking: Political Sketch Writing. Enclosure Acts. 2017. Branwell Bronte. Pushkin House Book Prize 2017

    Anne McElvoy and guests look at the style of the election and the job of sketch writers.

  5. Free Thinking: Poetry and Protest Newcastle

    Poetry and protest -Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar and Major Jackson at Newcastle University.

  6. Free Thinking: Patriotism: The Union Jack

    Afua Hirsch, Graham Bartram, John Bew, Ash Sarkar & Andrew Rosindell join Anne McElvoy.

  7. Free Thinking: Paolozzi; Daniel Dennett

    Philip Dodd looks at the art of Paolozzi and talks consciousness with Daniel Dennett.

  8. Free Thinking: Outsiders and Colin Wilson. Norse sagas. The Vulgar.

    Gary Lachman discusses Colin Wilson's ideas about alienation with Matthew Sweet.

  9. Free Thinking: Oscar Nominations; T2 Trainspotting; Denial

    Matthew Sweet and guests consider film making in 2017.

  10. Free Thinking: Neglected Women: Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Charlotte Robinson.

    Author Tracy Chevalier and new academic research into women forgotten from history.

  11. Free Thinking: Narcissism

    Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore our obsession with the self.

  12. Free Thinking: Medieval Manuscripts. Emma Donoghue.

    Author of Room talks to Matthew Sweet about starvation and sainthood in her new novel

  13. Free Thinking: Martin Luther- fundamentalist reactionary or enlightened creator of our modern world

    Diarmaid MacCulloch, Ulinka Rublack and Peter Stanford discuss Martin Luther

  14. Free Thinking: Mark Dion; Colour, Insects, Virginia Woolf

    Human Beings are part of Natural History discuss: via art, science and the Bloosmbury set

  15. Free Thinking: Light: Ann Wroe, Dan Flavin, Blackpool Illuminations, The Sun.

    Ann Wroe joins Anne McElvoy for an exploration of light from Blackpool to the South Downs

  16. Free Thinking: Laurent Binet; the rise of blockchain tech.

    Anne McElvoy talks to the French novelist about Roland Barthes.

  17. Free Thinking: Language and Belonging

    Preti Taneja with Guy Gunaratne,Dina Nayeri, Michael Rosen, Momtaza Mehri & Deena Mohamed

  18. Free Thinking: Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy

    Simon Heffer and Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Sussex University.

  19. Free Thinking: Landmark: Marnie

    Matthew Sweet with an exploration of memory and Winston Graham's novel/Hitchcock's film

  20. Free Thinking: Landmark: Machiavelli's The Prince

    Sarah Dunant, Erica Benner, MP Gisela Stuart and Catherine Fletcher with Philip Dodd.

  21. Free Thinking: Landmark Jaws: 7 July 15

    Matthew Sweet on Jaws 40 years on with Gareth Fraser, Ian Hunter, Will Self and Fiona Tan.

  22. Free Thinking: La La Land and Hollywood - past and present

    Matthew Sweet and guests consider Hollywood's obsession with Hollywood.

  23. Free Thinking: Kevin Brownlow

    Kevin Brownlow talks to Matthew Sweet about documenting and restoring silent classics.

  24. Free Thinking: John Simpson on the death of the war correspondent.

    Philip Dodd and guests consider what we mean by 'news' in 2016.

  25. Free Thinking: Japanese History, Chinese Democarcy

    Zhang Weiwei, one of China's foremost public intellectuals, talks to Rana Mitter about...

  26. Free Thinking: India/Pakistan: Mohsin Hamid. Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House. Preti Taneja and Sam Goodman

    Anne McElvoy and guests look back at 1947, the end of empire and refugees travelling now.

  27. Free Thinking: Images of America

    As London hosts 2 exhibitions of American art, Anne McElvoy discusses the American Dream.

  28. Free Thinking: Hull: A trip down memory lane.

    Basil Kirchin's Hull, Richard Bean's Civil War play and the re-opened Ferens Art Gallery.

  29. Free Thinking: Hay Festival: Inheritance - Steve Jones, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James

    Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter to debate inheritance

  30. Free Thinking: Hay 2017: Women's Voices in the Classical World.

    Writers and historians join Catherine Fletcher for a discussion recorded at Hay.

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