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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Post-War Germany
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Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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Women, art and activism
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Shakespeare as inspiration
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New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project
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The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023
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New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness
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African identity via China and photography
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Robert Aickman
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Eliza Flower and non-conformist thinking
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Sleep
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Sankofa and Afrofuturism
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Valis and Philip K Dick
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Humours and The Body
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Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork
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New Thinking: Work and protest
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Being Blonde
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The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023
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Art, Kew, a symphony and nature
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New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness
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Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life
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Refuge and National Poetry Day
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Slavic culture and myth
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Hobbes and New Leviathans
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Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival
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Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski
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Notebooks and new technology
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Why go into space?
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Black Atlantic
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The Red Shoes
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Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco
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Wolfson Prize 2023
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Writing and Place: The Cairngorms
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Writing and Place: Cornwall
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The Black Country past and present
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Landladies
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Depicting AIDS in Drama
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Late works
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Dark Places
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ETA Hoffmann
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My Neighbour Totoro
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Oliver Postgate
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The Wife of Bath
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