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Arts & Ideas — 1000 episodes
The Ethics of Knowledge
Trade and Traffic
The Child's Eye View
Eccentrics & Outsiders
Eccentrics & Outsiders
Satire and Gulliver's Travels
Wealth
Free Thinking at the Hay Festival: Responsibility
Thinking with Food
Technologies of the Self
The Middle
Weapons, Real and Symbolic
Weapons, real and symbolic
Purity
Humility
Oral Tradition and Oracy
Taste
Women, Language and Experience
Authority
Crime and Punishment: Medieval to Modern
Working Class Creativity
Is Might Right?
Labour, Work and Productivity
Double Lives
Victorian Values
Innovation
Travel
Idleness
Influencing History
Marriage
Rocks
Revenge and reconciliation
The end of civilisations and societies
Rational and Irrational decision making
Traditions, roots and local pride
The status of Science
The Good Life
Finding my tribe
Friendship
Censorship, editing and self-censorship
Christian faith, politics and culture
Language
Failure
Podcasting difficult histories
Common Sense
Power: A User's Guide
WOLVES
Political Visions
Peace
Community
Decadence
The Middle Classes
Isolation
Evidence
Uncertainty
A pinch of salt
Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking
All we need is love
Repetition
Decision Making
Diaries
Knowing When To Stop
Beer, Crisps and the British pub
Luck, predictability and superstition
How we think about evil
Gifts and Gratitude
Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump
Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?
Milton and our modern world
Ghosts, death and ecstatic states
Are we all American now?
Insiders & Outsiders
Childhood and innocence
Reading & Empathy
The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute
Crisis & Decision
Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
Escapism
The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy
History - the long and short of it
Generations - D-Day - Global Instability
The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies
Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?
Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.
New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers
Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest
Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife
Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal
New Thinking: Exploring the local
Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Change, scrabble and cultural christianity
Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine
Unravelling plainness
Pranks
What does feminist art mean?
New Thinking: Light and Darkness
Approaches to death
New Thinking: East West artistic connections
Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Writing Place
Arteries of tomorrow
New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment
The Legacy of the Laundries
Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Weird Viking Bodies
From algorithms to oceans
Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft
Scottish Kingship
Free speech, censorship and modern China
Call Me Mother
Edward Bond
Sleep justice and sleeplessness
Images of Persia
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
Muses and women's creativity
Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress
The Dutch Connection
Hitchhiking
New Thinking: Stitching Stories
Can - Future Days
Myths, ships and history
The Condom and V.D.
Chocolate
Chocolate
The Greenwich Outrage
Picnics
Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
On The Silver Globe
East West religious connections
Secrets, Lies & Irish History
Holocaust history
The Kyoto School
Heidegger & Antisemitism
What is normal?
Shakespeare's Women
Dust, dirt and domesticity
Octavia Butler's Kindred
Essay writing
Aztecs and Otherness
Travel, pleasure and peril
Dickens, Disney and copyright
New Thinking: Carols and Convents
Greek myth, goddesses and art
Prize Winners 2023
Harry Belafonte
Margaret Cavendish
Narnia and CS Lewis
Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter
New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre
Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
Libraries
Lorca
AS Byatt and The Children's Book
Post-War Germany
Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners
New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture
Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Women, art and activism
Shakespeare as inspiration
New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project
New Thinking: How and why we talk
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023
New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going
New Thinking: Food
New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness
African identity via China and photography
Robert Aickman
Eliza Flower and non-conformist thinking
Sleep
Sankofa and Afrofuturism
Valis and Philip K Dick
Humours and The Body
Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork
New Thinking: Work and protest
Being Blonde
The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023
Art, Kew, a symphony and nature
New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness
Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life
Refuge and National Poetry Day
Slavic culture and myth
Hobbes and New Leviathans
Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival
Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski
Notebooks and new technology
Why go into space?
Black Atlantic
The Red Shoes
Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco
Wolfson Prize 2023
Writing and Place: The Cairngorms
Writing and Place: Cornwall
The Black Country past and present
Landladies
Depicting AIDS in Drama
Late works
Dark Places
ETA Hoffmann
My Neighbour Totoro
Oliver Postgate
The Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath
Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Writing and Place: Wales
Writing and Place: The North-East
Writing and Place: Northern Ireland
Rock Follies
Oxford Philosophy
Childhood and play
South Asia: poverty and princes
New Thinking: women and football
Liverpool Biennial + art at MIF
A lively Tudor world
New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS
New Thinking: Children and health
New Thinking: health inequalities
New Thinking: Design and health
New Thinking: Writing the NHS
Dystopian thinking
Julian the Apostate
Boyhood to manhood
Gut instinct
Diva
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Life, art and drama in the kitchen
Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Portraits
Ideas about health
Adam Smith
Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
Michel Piccoli
Nature Memoirs
Europe
The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Sneezing, smells and noses
Linda Grant and Jewish history
Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright
Martin Amis talking with Philip Dodd in 2014
Essex
Rocky Horror and camp
Zimbabwean writing
Agoraphobia
Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science
Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
Kingship and ceremony
Sidney Poitier
Sound, conflict and central heating
Lady Antonia Fraser
Queen Charlotte, fashion and music
New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day
Hilma af Klint
Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing
Galatea and Shakespeare
Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite
Land and soil politics
Ginger Rogers
Children of the Waters
Pirates
Revolutionary free speech
Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
Religion and Science
A family of witches
New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld
The Rossettis and Walter Pater
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2023
Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea
Translating Cultures
East Germany
The culture of Albania
New Thinking: AI, feminism, human/machines
Busking and Billy Waters
The wicked? stepmother
Decadent Art
Debt
New Thinking: British Sign Language
Making Your Voice Heard
Anarchism and David Graeber
Dom Sylvester Houédard
Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Tin cans, cutlery and sewing
Ghosts of Caribbean History
Climate change and empire building
Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur
Idrissa Ouédraogo
Stories of Love
Donkeys
The Heir of Redclyffe
Lady Macbeth
Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills
Gwendolyn Brooks
The mermaid-like Mélusine
Crossroads and TV soaps
The English Civil War
Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
William Stukeley
Audrey Hepburn
Higher Education for women and working class students
The Wife of Bath
New Thinking: Language Loss and revival
Anna Kavan
Phillis Wheatley
Katherine Mansfield & Mavis Gallant
Amílcar Cabral
Wilkie Collins & disability
1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions
1922: Leisure and Sport
1922: The Hollywood Bowl
1922:Food fads
1922: Reader's Digest
Landladies
Bestiaries and Beyond
Lists
Depicting AIDS in Drama
Trapeze acts and circus celebrities
New Thinking: Language, the Victorians and Us
How do we look at Art?
Soil, Chickens and City Farms
Star Trek
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment
Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history
New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history
St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
Going Underground
Experimental writing
New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022
New Thinking: Net Zero Design
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
George Bernard Shaw
Plastic and Clay
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
John Knox
Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
Alexander the Great
New Thinking: Beowulf
Ghostwatch
Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire
New Thinking: Dead Languages
Oliver Postgate
British Academy Book Prize 2022
Romanticism Revisited
The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022
New Thinking: Accents
Miles Davis and On The Corner
How We Read
Female power and influence past and present
My Neighbour Totoro
John Cowper Powys
Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
Ibsen
The Black Country - past and present
The Black Country - past and present
The Normans
Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
Immortality
The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries
New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?
1922: The Hollywood Bowl
1922: The Lincoln Memorial
Prison Break
Egyptian Satire
Pogroms and Prejudice
Facing Facts
Dam Fever and the Diaspora
1922: Allotments
1922: Nanook of the North
1922: Leisure and the body
1922: Food
Not Quite Jean Muir
Tudor Virtual Reality
Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care
Digging Deep
Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
1922: Wimbledon
Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
1922: Reader's Digest
Touki Bouki
Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth ties
Futurism
Modernism around the world
New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping
The Daleks
Satyajit Ray's films
France, music hall and history
Women warriors and power brokers
The Black Fantastic
Writing about money
New Thinking: India in the archives
Vampires and the Penny Dreadful
David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist
Belief, Habit & Religion
Late works
ETA Hoffmann
New Thinking: Waiting
Sheffield reinvented
Slow Film and Ecology
Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922
South African writing
John McGrath's Scottish Drama
Victorian streets
The Wolfson Prize 2022
New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities
Get Carter
Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy
Oceans and the Sea
New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet
New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art
New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown
Tudor families
The Tudor Mind
Tattoos
Goddesses
Gandhi, Indian Architecture
Soil
Speaking Welsh
New Thinking: Flooding and Energy
Soho
Mental Health
Odessa Stories
Pause for Thought
Opium Tales
New Generation Thinkers: Alexander and the Persians
Windows
Kawanabe Kyōsai and Yukio Mishima
A Brazilian soprano in jazz-age Paris
John Baptist Dasalu and fighting for freedom
May Day rituals
New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation
Rainer Maria Rilke
New Generation Thinkers: Walking with the ghosts of the Durham coalfield
Teaching and Inspiration
Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound
New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage
Housework
Ships and History
Grief
China: world politics, ink art & insomnia
Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment
New Generation Thinkers 2022
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap
Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon
After Dark Festival: Dark Places
After Dark Festival: Equinox
John Maynard Keynes
Vikings
The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture
Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring
Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history
Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns
Fashion Stories: In a handbag
Fashion Stories: Body Armour
Blackmail & Shame
New Thinking: Women’s history
New Thinking: Women’s history
Sisters
The Generation Gap
The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain
Climate change, nature and art
Perfecting The Body
New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets
Pankaj Mishra, Research into Indian history
Pankaj Mishra, research into Indian history
Artists' models and fame
Hitchhiking
China, Freud, war and sci fi
Stonehenge history
Existential Risk
Whale watching
Whale-watching
Diverse Classical Music II
Futurism
Modernism Around The World
Paper
How To Make A Modernist Masterpiece
Asta Nielsen
Yishai Sarid; marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music
Touki Bouki
New Thinking: Mental Health Research
Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones
Altered States
Mélusine
Adapting Molière
Appeasement
Gloves
Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave
Fungi: An Alien Encounter
Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
Early Buddhism; Sheila Rowbotham
Witchcraft and Margaret Murray
The TV Debate
New Thinking: Research in Film Award Winners 2021
Ground-breaking history books
The Day of the Triffids
Caribbean art
Dürer, Rhinos and Whales
Toys
Christopher Logue's War Music
Romanian history and literature
New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration
Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
New Thinking: Being Human 2021
Green Thinking: Climate Justice
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021
Green Thinking: Future of Home
God's Body
Green Thinking: Activism and Young People
Green Thinking: Energy
Caesar, Hogarth and images of power
Oceans, art and pacific poetry
Green Thinking: Law
Time
Green Thinking: Media
New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music
Green Thinking: Trees
Twilight
Green Thinking: Sustainable Development
Celebrating Buchi Emecheta
The Language of Flowers
Green Thinking: History of climate summits
Rationality & Tradition
Green Thinking: Landscapes
New Thinking: Black British Theatre. An Afro-Cuban star
Green Thinking: how we see nature
Sugar
Colour
Frieze: Museums in the 21st century
Green Thinking: Health
Choice
New Thinking: Black British Theatre
The British Academy Book Prize 2021
Breakfast
Green Thinking: Transport
Order & Chaos
Thomas Mann
New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time
The continuing appeal of Tudor history
Punk
Green Thinking: Soil
Hannah Arendt's exploration of Totalitarianism
Belonging
Green Thinking: Fashion
Glitches
Dante's visions
Saint John Henry Newman
Revisit Shoes
Revisit The influence of the British black arts movement
Revisit: Tokyo Idols and Urban Life
Revisit Rashōmon
Green Thinking: Food
Bette Davis
Connecting with nature
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Green Thinking: Weather
Breathe
Green Thinking: Festivals
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Epic Iran, lost cities and Proust
The English country house party
Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Thinking:The Innovative Shape of Poems
Green Thinking: Sustainable Cities
Cornwall and the Coastal Gothic
Green Thinking: Climate Change and Heritage
World's Fairs and the future
Green Thinking: Climate Change and Literature
Mid Century Modern
Building London
Masks
Displacement
Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas
Green Thinking: Climate and Refugees
How anthropology helps us understand the world
How anthropology helps us understand the world
Green Thinking: Hot Money
Beryl Vertue
Women's Art
Green Thinking: Seascapes and Blue Gold
Green Thinking: Climate and Conflict
Green Thinking: Future of Work
Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?
Alice and Dreaming
New Thinking: The Botanical Past
Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100
Fashion, Art, and the Body
Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?
Who needs critics?
Ghosts of the Spanish civil war
The Wolfson History Prize 2021
Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings
New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data
Marlon James and Neil Gaiman
Alison Bechdel
Napoleon the gardener and art thief
Samuel Johnson's circle
Northern Ireland
New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale
New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop
Links between Judaism and Christianity
Epistemic Injustice
New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers
New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds
New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far
New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?
Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons
The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress
Maryse Condé's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan
New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire
The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins
Jacques Tati's Trafic
Octavia Butler's Kindred
Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Milton: Samson Agonistes
John Milton's Samson Agonistes
The Liverpool Biennial debate
Spy talk
From Blackface to Beyoncé
Writing About Faith
Churchill's reputation
Pleasure
Frantz Fanon
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
Syria: hope and poetry
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman
New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard
Edward Said's thinking
The Vietnam Paris connection
New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk
Speech, Voice, Accents and AI Free Thinking
Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith
New Thinking: Girls
Saint John Henry Newman
Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4
Humans, Animals, Ecologies
EAdoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien & Violette Leduc
Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history
Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies
Coins, the magic money tree and a cashless world
Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)
ENew Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums
Class and social mobility
Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman
New Thinking: Eco-Criticism
What Makes a Good Lecture?
Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France
Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice
James Baldwin and race in USA
Harlots & 18th Century Working Women
Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil
New Thinking: Women and Slavery
Autism, film and patterns
New Thinking: Aphra Behn
Dostoevsky
Mildred Pierce
Marlene Dietrich
Winter Light
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Ancient wisdom & remote living
New Thinking: Hey Presto!
New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health
The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age
Times of Change
Mould-Breaking Writing
When Shakespeare Travelled with Me
Leadership & authority
Politician and Pioneer
Beastly Politics
Bedrooms
Byron, celebrity and fan mail
Should biographers imitate their subjects?
Democracy, Hong Kong and USA
Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo
New Thinking: Films and Research
New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
Billy Wilder
New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture
War in fact and fiction
Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
Individualism and Community
The post-Covid city
The Writing of Aime Cesaire
Polari Prize winners
Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
Post Truth & Derrida
Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid
New Thinking about Museums
The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois
Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Cows in culture and soil
Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020
Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures
New Thinking: The impact of being multilingual
Get Carter
Family ties and reshaping history
New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History
Piranesi and disturbing archecture
The Radiophonic Workshop
Greek classics and the sea plus a pair of novels byTolstoy and Dostoevsky
Wole Soyinka's writing
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland
Dada and the power of Nonsense
Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains
Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland
New Thinking:Nature Writing
Magic
How do we build a new masculinity ?
Egyptian Satire
Pogroms and prejudice
The consolation of philosophy and stories
What does a black history curriculum look like?
Prison Break
Facing Facts
Gambling, good leadership and economic history
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Dam Fever and The Diaspora
Not Quite Jean Muir
Digging Deep
Tudor Virtual Reality
Coming out Crip and Acts of Care
Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam
Revisit: Arundhati Roy
Rethinking the Curriculum
Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology
Queer Bloomsbury and stillness in art and dance
Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species
New Thinking: Refugees
The future of theatre debate
Failure and female friendship
Dickens
New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery
Robin Askwith
ERevisit: Tokyo Story
Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Sarah Perry
Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken
Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden
Kindness
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi
Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton
WW II radio propaganda & French relations
Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia
Revisit: Mark Haddon
Cary Grant
Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Alternative Realities
Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf
Deep Time and the Earth
Belonging
New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives
Revisit: What does game playing teach us
Knees
New Thinking: Wordsworth
The Declaration Of Arbroath
How do we build a new masculinity ?
What's so great about EM Forster
Future Thinking
Contagion and Viruses
Shoes
New Thinking: Science Fiction
Does Growth Matter?
Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture
Advertising & Artemisia
Fighting Women
Jewish Identity in 2020
Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Frank Ramsey
New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality
Anne Enright + the value of gossip
Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
How archictecture shapes society
New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people
Japan Now 2020
Genes, racism, ageing and evidence
African Empire Stories
The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Queer histories
The History of Sex
EThe shadow of slavery
Early cinema: why are we obsessed with firsts?
Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture
Mocking power past and present.
New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution
Fungi: An Alien Encounter
How we see pregnancy past and present
Remembering Auschwitz
What is good listening?
Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse
Goddesses of academia
New Thinking: About Face
Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"
Simplify your life
Philosophy and Film
Could there be a private language?
Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?
The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile
The culture wars and politics now.
Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World
New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories
Speaking the right language.
The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton
Pan-Africanism
The shadow of empire and colonialism
Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security
When TV & the information superhighway were new
Resting And Rushing
The future of universities
Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
New Thinking: George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss
Are the arts saving Margate?
Why We Need New News
The Legacy of the Trojan War
New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019
Being Human: Love Stories
The Changing Image of Masculinity.
Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture
The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate
Quatermass
New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany
Halloween. Ghost Stories
Cars, Parking and Motorways
Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
What to Believe
New Thinking: First Encounters
Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate
Dictators
The Woolly Episode
2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
East Meets West
Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill
Modern Dutch Writing
The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art
Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day.
New Thinking: Places of Poetry & The Colonial Countryside Project
From The Spains to LatinX
Surveillance, Conspiracy, and Secrets from the Archives
Anxiety
Back to the '80s
Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
Tolerance, censorship and free speech.
New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability
Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft
Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving Home
Proms Plus: Letters
Proms Plus: Sacrifice
Proms Plus: Landscape
Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy
Proms Plus: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan
Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction
Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.
Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe
Proms Plus: Tragedy
Proms Plus: Swans
Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking
Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
Proms Plus: Music and Health
Proms Plus: Moon Landing
Book Parts and Difficulty
New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles
New Thinking: City Talk
Camille Paglia
An insider's view of war
Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.
Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.
Russia and Fear.
Free Thinking: Language and Belonging
Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.
Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming
Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak
The Hard Man in the Call-Centre
James Ellroy
'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The history of the three-piece suit
Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali
Comrades in Arms
Landmark: Finnegans Wake
Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
The well-groomed Georgian
Afropean Identities. Filming the Arab Spring.
Michael Rakowitz, Archaeology Now, Epic Journeys and Facial Disfigurement
Breaking Down the Barriers
Orwell's 1984. A Landmark of Culture.
Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?
AI and creativity: what makes us human?
Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay.
Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy
Censorship and sex
Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn Forché
Rivers, different cultures, different values
Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration
Rivers and geopolitics
Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.
Wolfson History Prize Discussion.
Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model
Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize
Landmark: Audre Lorde
EIntroducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers
20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World.
Does My Pet Love Me?
The New Age of Sentimentality
Why We Need Weepies
The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion
Should Doctors Cry?
Where Do Human Rights Come From?
The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
The Unsaid
Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
The Way We Used To Feel
Who Wrote Animal Farm?
How They Manipulate Our Emotions
Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival
Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century
The Emotion of Now
Healthy Eating Edwardian Style
'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get?
Shopping Around the Baby Market
Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
Being Diplomatic
The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
Anxiety and the Teenage Brain
A city is not a park but should it be?
Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson
Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture
Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
Betrayal
Childhood faces and fears
Empathy
George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri
Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women
The Council Estate in Culture
Is British Culture Getting Wierder?
Women, relationships and the law past and present
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
David Bailey, Don McCullin
EThe joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.
Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
Jack the Ripper and women as victims
Images of Japan
Authority in the Era of Populism
The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature
Patti LuPone
Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
Love
Africa Babel China
Spike Lee
Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds
EEncylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.
Street Culture, Protests, Food.
Sea Goings
Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.
Consent
Slow Looking at Art
Oscars 2019
Icons.
Tourism past and present
Walls
Boredom
Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette