Arts & Ideas
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.
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Isolation
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Evidence
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Uncertainty
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A pinch of salt
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Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking
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All we need is love
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Repetition
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Decision Making
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Diaries
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Knowing When To Stop
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Beer, Crisps and the British pub
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Luck, predictability and superstition
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How we think about evil
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Gifts and Gratitude
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Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump
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Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?
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Milton and our modern world
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Ghosts, death and ecstatic states
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Are we all American now?
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Insiders & Outsiders
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Childhood and innocence
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Reading & Empathy
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The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Inst...
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Crisis & Decision
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Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
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Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
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Escapism
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The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy
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History - the long and short of it
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Generations - D-Day - Global Instability
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The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies
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Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?
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Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to wor...
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New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers
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Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest
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Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife
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Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal
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New Thinking: Exploring the local
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Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
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Change, scrabble and cultural christianity
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Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine
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Unravelling plainness
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Pranks
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What does feminist art mean?
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New Thinking: Light and Darkness
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Approaches to death
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New Thinking: East West artistic connections
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Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
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Writing Place
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Arteries of tomorrow
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