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Free Thinking: Narcissism

Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore our obsession with the self.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking: Churchill, Pocahontas and The Idiot

Anne McElvoy considers Churchill on the big screen and the legacy of Pocahontas.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking: Tom McCarthy. Jacobitism; Satirical Indexes; A Museum of Modern Nature

Anne McElvoy looks at Bonnie Prince Charlie and Nature exhibitions & meets Tom McCarthy.

• 46 mins

Free Thinking - Terrorism: Richard English, Baroness Warsi, 2017 New Generation Thinker Thomas Simpson.

Rana Mitter and guests look at fact and fiction as they explore how terrorism works.

• 65 mins

Free Thinking - Man and Machine: Garry Kasparov, Wyndham Lewis. 2017 New Generation Thinker Simon Beard

Philip Dodd looks at AI with Garry Kasparov, Vorticism and research into overpopulation.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking - Canada 150: Robert Lepage, Katherine Ryan.

The French Canadian playwright/performer and the stand up comedian talk to Philip Dodd

• 43 mins

Free Thinking: Canada 150: Identity Robbie Richardson, Alison MacLeod, Deborah Pearson + Rupi Kaur and Kevan Funk.

New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott look at Canada in TV, poems + art

• 43 mins

Free Thinking: Canada 150: Sydney Newman and British TV; Vahni Capildeo; Shubbak Festival 2017

Matthew Sweet investigates the Canadian dynamo who transformed British TV drama

• 43 mins

Free Thinking: Food

Matthew Sweet explores the joys of food

• 42 mins

Free Thinking 鈥� Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett on wild swimming. Jake Arnott on Joe Orton

Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett swim in the literary and poetic power of the sea

• 44 mins

Free Thinking 鈥� Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Heer Ranjha. Queer Icons: Sappho. Part of Gay Britannia

The Punjabi "Romeo and Juliet"; and founding the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence

• 43 mins

Free Thinking - Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium. Part of Gay Britannia.

Shahidha Bari discusses LGBTQ in the history of philosophy + the Caine Prize winner

• 54 mins

Free Thinking: Art in the Age of Black Power; History of Racist Ideas in US

Rana Mitter and Linton Kwesi Johnson and Ibram X Kendi

• 44 mins

Free Thinking: Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy

Simon Heffer and Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Sussex University.

• 52 mins

Proms Extra - Deep Time

Geologist Iain Stewart and geographer Nicholas Crane consider the concept of "Deep Time"

• 39 mins

Proms Extra: Music and Moods

Thomas Dixon and musicologist Wiebke Thorm盲hlen discuss music, literature and emotion.

• 20 mins

Proms Extra: Opium and Creativity in the 19th c.

Matthew Sweet, Daisy Hay, Richard Davenport-Hines at Imperial College, London

• 27 mins

Proms Extra: Europe in Writing

Nandini Das & novelist Lawrence Norfolk discuss European writers & the idea of 鈥楨urope鈥�.

• 21 mins

Proms Extra: Sea Journeys and Voyages

Rana Mitter considers epic sea journeys in history with Barry Cunliffe & Edith Hall.

• 21 mins

Proms Extra: Happiness

Literature & unhappy people with Will Abberley, Charlotte Mendelson & Claudia Hammond.

• 20 mins

Proms Extra: Sentimentality

Anne McElvoy, Dr. Se谩n Williams & writer Rachel Hewitt discuss sentimentality.

• 20 mins

Proms Extra: Ella Fitzgerald

Kevin LeGendre and Claire Martin discuss Ella Fitzgerald

• 21 mins

Proms Extra: Cuneiform 07082017

Irving Finkel and Shahidha Bari on Mesopotamian writing, jokes and boat building specs

• 40 mins

Proms Extra: Sleep and Insomnia

Sports sleep coach Nick Littlehales & novelist A. L. Kennedy discuss sleep & insomnia.

• 22 mins

Proms Extra: Djinn

Elif Shafak and Shahidha Bari tell Ian McMillan why humans need the genie

• 31 mins

Proms Extra: Unfinished Art and Literature

Ian McMillan on the appeal and arts of the Unfinished

• 32 mins

Proms Extra: Ancient Rome

Matthew Sweet talks to Natalie Haynes about the glory that was Rome.

• 39 mins

Proms Extra: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Rana Mitter is joined by Kathleen Burk & Joanna Cohen to discuss the Gettysburg Address.

• 27 mins

Proms Extra: Lenin

Anne McElvoy discusses Lenin with historians Helen Rappaport and Victor Sebestyen.

• 40 mins

Proms Extra: Alan Hollinghurst

Booker Prize winner, Alan Hollinghurst, discusses his new book, The Sparsholt Affair.

• 19 mins