Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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The Hard Man in the Call-Centre
Alistair Fraser on the fates and fortunes of Glaswegian tough guys
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The Greenwich Outrage
The attempt by an anarchist to blow up the Royal Observatory in 1894 and its consequences
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The Goodies
Matthew Sweet meets the trio behind the '70s and early '80s TV comedy show
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The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn, Xiaolu Guo & Matthew Sweet on Doris Lessing.
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The Golden Notebook
Lara Feigel, Xiaolu Guo, Melissa Benn + David Aaronovitch on Doris Lessing's 1962 novel.
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The Generation Gap
Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoy茅 talk family histories with Matthew Sweet
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The future of universities
Harvard's Larry Summers & OU's Josie Fraser on the impact of technology & globalisation
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The future of theatre debate
Bertie Carvel, Amit Lahav, Eleanor Loyd, Roy Alexander Weise, Caroline Dinenage MP & more
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The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023
The art museum as community space, immersive art experiences & other hot topics.
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The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022
Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.
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The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art
Michael Govan Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art talks art with Philip Dodd
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The Frieze Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
Michael Govan, Sabine Haag & Hartwig Fischer at the Royal Institution, London.
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The Frieze 大象传媒 Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
Gallery directors from Russia, USA and Singapore compare notes, hosted by Anne McElvoy
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The Free Thinking Lecture: Linda Yueh on Globalisation
Economist Linda Yueh delivers her vision for restoring faith in the free market.
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The Free Thinking Festival Lecture: Claudia Rankine
Prize-winning poet Claudia Rankine explores language and racism past and present.
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay: The Medieval Scottish Dream State
Kylie Murray explores visions of Scottishness in The Wallace and The Scotichronicon.
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Sculpture and Seduction in the 18th Century
Danielle Thom looks at the links between bawdy prints and classical sculpture.
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Jews in Occupied France: Coexistence with the Enemy?
Daniel Lee revisits Vichy France to uncover a different history of Jewish life there.
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Women on Their Own: Widows in Britain, Now and Then
Nadine Muller on the status of the widow in fact and fiction 鈥�
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - The Moor of Florence A Medici Mystery
Catherine Fletcher on claims that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Politician and Pioneer: Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh
Clare Walker Gore on what a C19th MP without hands and feet tells us about stereotypes.
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Nancy Cunard: The Rebellious Heiress
Sandeep Parmar on the life of the anti racist campaigner, modernist muse and heiress
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Kilts, Celts and Clearances in World War One
Peter Mackay on what kilt wearing meant for some soldiers fighting World War One
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Inside a Pirate鈥檚 Cookbook: A Culinary Journey through the 17th Century
Joe Moshenska on Sir Kenelm Digby - alchemist, astrologer, diplomat and recipe collector.
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Beer and the British Empire
Sam Goodman looks at the way beer was used as both beverage and medicine in Colonial India
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The Forgotten German Princess
The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.
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The Foreign Secretary William Hague
William Hague discusses the dramatic changes taking throughout the globe and Britain's...
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The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute
Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst
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The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot's Essay from the Free Thinking Festival
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The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
Daisy Black conjures up images of breaking bread and cannibalism in mystery plays
