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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New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment
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The Legacy of the Laundries
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Gas, oil and the Essex blues
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Weird Viking Bodies
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From algorithms to oceans
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Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft
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Scottish Kingship
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Free speech, censorship and modern China
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Call Me Mother
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Edward Bond
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Sleep justice and sleeplessness
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Images of Persia
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Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
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Muses and women's creativity
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Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress
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The Dutch Connection
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Hitchhiking
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New Thinking: Stitching Stories
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Can - Future Days
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Myths, ships and history
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The Condom and V.D.
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Chocolate
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Chocolate
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The Greenwich Outrage
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Picnics
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Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
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On The Silver Globe
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East West religious connections
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Secrets, Lies & Irish History
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Holocaust history
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The Kyoto School
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Heidegger & Antisemitism
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What is normal?
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Shakespeare's Women
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Dust, dirt and domesticity
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Octavia Butler's Kindred
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Essay writing
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Aztecs and Otherness
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Travel, pleasure and peril
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Dickens, Disney and copyright
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New Thinking: Carols and Convents
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Greek myth, goddesses and art
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Prize Winners 2023
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Harry Belafonte
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Margaret Cavendish
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Narnia and CS Lewis
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Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter
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New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre
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Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
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Libraries
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