Arts & Ideas Podcast
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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
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Free Thinking - Walter Benjamin; A cultural history of the body; Edvard Munch; Soviet Superwoman
Thu 23 Jun 2016
Anne McElvoy evaluates the fiction of Walter Benjamin and the Soviet superwoman.
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Free Thinking - Universities: Therapy or Learning?
Wed 22 Jun 2016
Philip Dodd debates "Universities - therapy or learning?". Dr SeΓ΅n Williams on Nietzsche
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Free Thinking: Hands - The Anatomical Venus
Tue 21 Jun 2016
Matthew Sweet discuses hands with Darian Leader plus New Generation Thinker Seb Falk.
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Free Thinking - Nottingham Contemporary Art Debate: Elizabeth Price, Alice Channer.
Thu 16 Jun 2016
Anne McElvoy is joined by curators and artists and an audience at Nottingham Contemporary
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Free Thinking - Jane Mayer Dark Money - Money & US Politics - Flora Nwapa's Efuru - African Literature - Emma Cline The Girls
Wed 15 Jun 2016
Emma Cline on cults and teenage girls, and we reread Flora Nwapa's pioneering novel Efuru
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Free Thinking - Mystics and Reality: Joanna Kavenna, Dorothy Cross, Jo Dunkley, New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson.
Tue 14 Jun 2016
Matthew Sweet investigates various paths to reality with artist, writer and cosmologist
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Free Thinking - Archaelogy: Alexandra Sofroniew, Damian Robinson, Raimund Karl, Susan Greaney.
Thu 9 Jun 2016
Rana Mitter hears about archaeology underwater at home and abroad, at the BM & Ashmoleum
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Free Thinking - Peter Singer
Wed 8 Jun 2016
Moral philosopher Peter Singer is in conversation with Philip Dodd
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Free Thinking - SjΓ³n, Winifred Knights. Katie Roiphe. New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson.
Tue 7 Jun 2016
Icelandic writer SjΓ³n, the career of Winifred Knights and New Generation Thinker on touch
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Free Thinking - Bhupen Khakhar. The City State of London? Saskia Sassen, Jane Morris, David Anderson and Pat Kane.
Thu 2 Jun 2016
Philip Dodd explores the art of Bhupen Khakhar as a retrospective opens at Tate Modern.
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Free Thinking: Hay Festival: Inheritance - Steve Jones, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James
Wed 1 Jun 2016
Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter to debate inheritance
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Free Thinking - Hay Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2016
Tue 31 May 2016
The 10 New Generation Thinkers 2016 join Rana Mitter to discuss their research.
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Free Thinking - Tale of Genji. Algorithms.
Thu 26 May 2016
Rana Mitter rereads The Tale of Genji sometimes called the world's first novel.
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Free Thinking - Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm.
Wed 25 May 2016
Philip Dodd looks at Latin America with writers Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro.
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Free Thinking - Photographers Dorothy Bohm, Wolfgang Suschitzky, Neil Libbert. Carry On Films.
Tue 24 May 2016
The Carry On film as social history and a photography show charting the 20th century.
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Free Thinking - Beauty: Dame Fiona Reynolds. The Bowes Museum. David Willetts on The State.
Thu 19 May 2016
Anne McElvoy talks to Dame Fiona Reynolds about preserving beauty in the countryside.
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Free Thinking - Landmark: In Parenthesis, by David Jones
Thu 19 May 2016
Writer Iain Sinclair librettist Emma Jenkins composer Paul Hills art historian Iain Bell
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Free Thinking - Transformations: Becoming a Goat, Neil Bartlett
Tue 17 May 2016
Neil Bartlett on Victorian performer Ernest Boulton. Thomas Thwaites on becoming a goat.
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Free Thinking - Germany: Neil MacGregor. A.T. Williams & Philippe Sands. Threepenny Opera. Volker Kutscher.
Thu 12 May 2016
Anne McElvoy talks to Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher, Hadyn Gwynne.
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Free Thinking - The Cultural Revolution
Wed 11 May 2016
Frank Dikötter, Xiaolu and Xinran join Rana Mitter to revisit the Cultural Revolution
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Free Thinking - Revolutionary thinking: Paul Mason, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Dacher Keltner.
Wed 11 May 2016
Paul Mason and Bryan and Mary Talbot discuss Louise Michel with Matthew Sweet.
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Free Thinking - Writers Writing about Love
Thu 5 May 2016
Anne McElvoy with novelists A L Kennedy, Tahmima Anam and Alain de Botton talking Love
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Free Thinking - Olafur Eliasson. Andrey Kurkov. Mary Dejevsky and Zinovy Zinik on Soviet Culture.
Wed 4 May 2016
Philip Dodd talks to the artist Olafur Eliasson and novelist Andrey Kurkov.
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Free Thinking - Concrete: Marina Lewycka, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Lynsey Hanley
Tue 3 May 2016
Matthew Sweet explores concrete homes with Marina Lewycka and looks at art at the YSP
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Free Thinking - TE Lawrence on stage. Jeremy Thorpe. Privacy.
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Playwright Howard Brenton and director Adrian Noble discuss dramas depicting TE Lawrence.
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Free Thinking - The Winter's Tale Landmark
Wed 27 Apr 2016
Samuel West, Carol Rutter, Michael Dobson and Matthew Sweet discuss The Winter's Tale.
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Free Thinking - Sounds of Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Bookshelf
Tue 26 Apr 2016
Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books which inspired Shakespeare
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Free Thinking - Sicily. John Hardyng's Chronicle. The London Library
Thu 21 Apr 2016
Anne McElvoy on Sicily plus the London Library at 175 with Tom Stoppard.
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Free Thinking - Slavoj Zizek.
Thu 21 Apr 2016
Philip Dodd debates migration, global solidarity with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek
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Free Thinking - Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker.
Tue 19 Apr 2016
Konstantin von Eggert, Sophie Fiennes and Geoff Dyer discuss Tarkovsky's 1979 film.
