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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Free Thinking: Hands - The Anatomical Venus

    Matthew Sweet discuses hands with Darian Leader plus New Generation Thinker Seb Falk.

  2. Free Thinking: Food

    Matthew Sweet explores the joys of food

  3. Free Thinking: Fiona Shaw and Mark Ravenhill on Brecht, John Knox, 2017 New Generation Thinker Joanne Paul.

    Philip Dodd looks at speaking truth to power and the beliefs of John Knox and Galileo.

  4. Free Thinking: Enoch Powell; US Supreme Court; War & Art

    Birmingham Rep stages a play about Enoch Powell; John Keane & Jananne Al-Ani on war art.

  5. Free Thinking: Energy and Landscape: Edward Burtynsky, Ella Hickson

    Photographer Edward Burtynsky, playwright Ella Hickson & experts on energy policy debate.

  6. Free Thinking: Ecstasy. Carpe Diem. 2017 New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes on medieval ecstasy.

    Jules Evans and Roman Krznaric discuss living in the moment and trances with Rana Mitter.

  7. Free Thinking: Churchill, Pocahontas and The Idiot

    Anne McElvoy considers Churchill on the big screen and the legacy of Pocahontas.

  8. Free Thinking: Caravaggio; Bob Dylan; Dario Fo; Lenin's train journey.

    Caravaggio's art explored by Letizia Treves, Joe Moshenska and Anders Lustgarten.

  9. Free Thinking: Canada 150: Sydney Newman and British TV; Vahni Capildeo; Shubbak Festival 2017

    Matthew Sweet investigates the Canadian dynamo who transformed British TV drama

  10. Free Thinking: Canada 150: Identity Robbie Richardson, Alison MacLeod, Deborah Pearson + Rupi Kaur and Kevan Funk.

    New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott look at Canada in TV, poems + art

  11. Free Thinking: Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris.

    Are public enquiries good government? Plus Matthew Parris on scorn. Anne McElvoy presents

  12. Free Thinking: Breaking Free: Landmark - Paradise Lost

    John Carey, Islam Issa, Mandy Green and Joe Moshenska with Philip Dodd.

  13. Free Thinking: Breaking Free - Martin Luther’s Revolution. New Research into the Reformation

    Alec Ryrie, Tom Charlton, Elizabeth Goodwin and Tara Hamling join Rana Mitter.

  14. Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette

    Laurence Scott examines the eminent Victorians Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough.

  15. Free Thinking: Artist Tom Phillips at 80; How do we save our plants?

    Artist Tom Phillips talks to Philip Dodd about his career as he marks his 80th birthday.

  16. Free Thinking: Artes Mundi Prize. Harriet Walter. Amitav Ghosh. Edmund Richardson

    Harriet Walter prepares to play Prospero, a review of the bi-ennial art prize in Cardiff.

  17. Free Thinking: Art in the Age of Black Power; History of Racist Ideas in US

    Rana Mitter and Linton Kwesi Johnson and Ibram X Kendi

  18. Free Thinking: Anger and friendships with Pankaj Mishra and Elif Shafak.

    Novelist Elif Shafak, US magazine editor Julius Krein, Douglas Murray and Pankaj Mishra.

  19. Free Thinking: An interview with Haemin Sunim

    Haemin Sunim, the Buddhist meditation teacher, on calm in a fast-paced 21st century world

  20. Free Thinking: American Power? Suzan-Lori Parks. Gary Younge. Abstract Expressionism.

    Pulitzer prize winning American dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks. William Boyd on American art.

  21. Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model

    Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.

  22. Free Thinking: 'Play' in urban design, Gillian Allnutt

    Philip Dodd considers the importance of 'play' in the way our city centres are designed.

  23. Free Thinking: Robots, and an Icelandic Dracula

    Matthew Sweet meets Eric the UK's first robot, built in 1928 now at the Science Museum.

  24. Free Thinking: Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

    Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetery and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.

  25. Free Thinking, BBC Radiophonic Workshop

    The BBC Radiophonic workshop,opened in 1958 with an aim to experiment and produce for...

  26. Free Thinking- William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.

    South Africa and art with William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes .

  27. Free Thinking Landmark: The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Merlin Holland, Will Self and Fiona Shaw join Matthew Sweet to discuss Wilde's novel

  28. Free Thinking Landmark - The Tin Drum

    Anne McElvoy is joined by the German novelist Eugen Ruge, British author Lawrence the...

  29. Free Thinking Landmark - 1001 Nights

    It's three hundred years since the death of Antoine Galland, a French orientalist and...

  30. Free Thinking in the Summer - Hay

    Philip Dodd discusses the Problem with Love with behavioural scientist Dylan Evans, AL...

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