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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap

    Confronting the man who jilted you is the plot of this 1960s Argentine expressionist film

  2. Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee

    Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 martial arts film made before Bruce Lee's death aged 32.

  3. Dark Places

    A poet, crime writer, theologian and marine biologist explore darkness.

  4. After Dark Festival: Equinox

    Finding meaning in the moment when the length of day and night is equal.

  5. John Maynard Keynes

    From HM Treasury to Versailles and Bloomsbury: a look at the life and legacy of JM Keynes.

  6. Vikings

    From the Victorian craze to modern takes on Norse myths, Netflix and archaeological finds.

  7. The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture

    How an East German creative writing class fought the cold war - was their poetry any good?

  8. Blackmail and Shame

    Mark Ravenhill on staging the play on which Hitchcock based Blackmail.

  9. New research into women's history

    The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism. Naomi Paxton hosts.

  10. Sisters

    The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Lucy Holland, Oyinkan Braithwaite and Shahidha Bari.

  11. The Generation Gap

    Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoy茅 talk family histories with Matthew Sweet

  12. The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain

    Lisa Mullen & guests mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of London's Barbican centre

  13. Climate change, nature and art

    Ingrid Pollard, Julian Perry, Patricia Dominguez, Will Abberley and Eleanor Barraclough.

  14. Perfecting the Body

    Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Xine Yao and Harry Parker discuss.

  15. Artists' models and fame

    Egon Schiele's women, Whistler's Woman in White, new radio ballads. Shahidha Bari hosts.

  16. Pankaj Mishra, Research into Indian history

    Pankaj Mishra discusses his new novel about four friends in an age of upheaval.

  17. Hitchhiking

    Matthew Sweet considers examples from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Polish tokens.

  18. China, Freud, War and Sci-Fi

    From AI and fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.

  19. Stonehenge History

    Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths.

  20. Existential Risk

    Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests.

  21. Whale Watching

    Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.

  22. Diverse Classical Music II

    New research into music by Margaret Bonds, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Ali Osman, Isaac Hishow.

  23. Futurism

    Matthew Sweet and guests look at the manifesto celebrating youth, technology and violence.

  24. Modernism around the World

    Rana Mitter looks at Bauhaus in Delhi, Japanese and South African novels and Mexican art.

  25. How to Create a Modernist Masterpiece

    Will Self, Alexandra Harris, Kevin Le Gendre and Owen Hatherley build up a manifesto.

  26. Asta Nielsen

    Matthew Sweet and guests look at the Danish star of androgynous early romcoms and Hamlet.

  27. Yishai Sarid, Marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

    Anne McElvoy talks to Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid & hears about new historical research.

  28. Diverse Classical Music

    Digging into the music of composers Joseph Bologne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry.

  29. Touki Bouki

    A close look at Djibril Diop Mamb茅ty's classic 1973 film with Matthew Sweet and guests.

  30. Paper

    An exploration of the cultural and social history of paper.

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