Free Thinking Episodes Episode guide
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Peter Brook
Peter Brook 1925-2022: the theatre director in conversation with Matthew Sweet in 2013.
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Stitching stories
Shahidha Bari visits new shows of women making art with textiles.
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Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence.
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Shakespeare for the People
Adrian Lester and Prof Ewan Fernie talk to Islam Issa about Birmingham's first folio.
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Raymond Williams's Keywords
Philip Dodd considers Raymond Williams's celebrated book Keywords.
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Post-Soviet culture, Sesame Street and punk
A look at Russian punk protest and a version of US TV's Big Bird, Bert and Ernie.
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Peter Brook
Peter Brook, 1925-2022: the theatre director in conversation with Matthew Sweet in 2013.
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Martin Amis talking with Philip Dodd in 2014
Martin Amis (1949-2023) talks to Philip Dodd about Jewish history and ideas about evil.
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Landmark: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn, Xiaolu Guo discuss The Golden Notebook.
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Harry Belafonte
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the career of the American singer, film star and activist
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Groundbreaking history books
Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published.
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Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution
Peter Stanford, Ulinka Rublack and Diarmaid MacCulloch join Anne McElvoy at LSE.
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Breaking Free - How the Reformation Changed British Daily Life.
Alec Ryrie, Tom Charlton, Elizabeth Goodwin and Tara Hamling join Rana Mitter.
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Belonging
Philip Dodd looks at our shifting sense of identity.
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Aldous Huxley
Authors Charlie Jane Anders, Nisi Shawl and Michael Dirda: What's so great about Huxley?
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30/03/2023
The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.
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29/07/2021
Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues
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28/07/2021
Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues
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28/05/2020
Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues
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28/04/2020
Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues
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28/02/2024
The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.
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27/07/2021
Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues
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21/05/2020
Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues
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16/07/2020
Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues
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16/04/2020
Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues
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13/02/2024
The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.
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05/05/2020
Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues
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02/06/2022
The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.