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Title
1

The Middle

2

Weapons, real and symbolic

3

Weapons, real and symbolic

4

Purity

5

Humility

6

Oral tradition and oracy

7

Taste

8

Women, language & experience

9

Authority

10

Crime and punishment medieval to modern

11

Working Class Creativity

12

Is Might Right?

13

Labour, work and productivity

14

Double Lives

15

Victorian Values

16

Innovation

17

Travel

18

Idleness

19

Influencing History

20

Marriage

21

Rocks

22

Revenge and reconciliation

23

The end of civilisations and societies

24

Rational and Irrational decision making

25

Traditions, roots and local pride

26

The status of Science

27

The Good Life

28

Finding my tribe

29

Friendship

30

Censorship, editing and self-censorship

31

Christian faith, politics and culture

32

Language

33

Failure

34

Podcasting difficult histories

35

Common Sense

36

Power: A User's Guide

37

WOLVES

38

Political Visions

39

Peace

40

Community

41

Decadence

42

The Middle Classes

43

Isolation

44

Evidence

45

Uncertainty

46

A pinch of salt

47

Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking

48

All we need is love

49

Repetition

50

Decision Making

51

Diaries

52

Knowing When To Stop

53

Beer, Crisps and the British pub

54

Luck, predictability and superstition

55

How we think about evil

56

Gifts and Gratitude

57

Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump

58

Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?

59

Milton and our modern world

60

Ghosts, death and ecstatic states

61

Are we all American now?

62

Insiders & Outsiders

63

Childhood and innocence

64

Reading & Empathy

65

The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute

66

Crisis & Decision

67

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

68

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

69

Escapism

70

The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy

71

History - the long and short of it

72

Generations - D-Day - Global Instability

73

The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies

74

Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?

75

Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.

76

New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers

77

Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest

78

Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife

79

Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal

80

New Thinking: Exploring the local

81

Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey

82

Change, scrabble and cultural christianity

83

Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine

84

Unravelling plainness

85

Pranks

86

What does feminist art mean?

87

New Thinking: Light and Darkness

88

Approaches to death

89

New Thinking: East West artistic connections

90

Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners

91

Writing Place

92

Arteries of tomorrow

93

New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment

94

The Legacy of the Laundries

95

Gas, oil and the Essex blues

96

Weird Viking Bodies

97

From algorithms to oceans

98

Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft

99

Scottish Kingship

100

Free speech, censorship and modern China

101

Call Me Mother

102

Edward Bond

103

Sleep justice and sleeplessness

104

Images of Persia

105

Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation

106

Muses and women's creativity

107

Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress

108

The Dutch Connection

109

Hitchhiking

110

New Thinking: Stitching Stories

111

Can - Future Days

112

Myths, ships and history

113

The Condom and V.D.

114

Chocolate

115

Chocolate

116

The Greenwich Outrage

117

Picnics

118

Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good

119

On The Silver Globe

120

East West religious connections

121

Secrets, Lies & Irish History

122

Holocaust history

123

The Kyoto School

124

Heidegger & Antisemitism

125

What is normal?

126

Shakespeare's Women

127

Dust, dirt and domesticity

128

Octavia Butler's Kindred

129

Essay writing

130

Travel, pleasure and peril

131

Dickens, Disney and copyright

132

New Thinking: Carols and Convents

133

Greek myth, goddesses and art

134

Prize Winners 2023

135

Harry Belafonte

136

Margaret Cavendish

137

Narnia and CS Lewis

138

Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter

139

New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre

140

Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens

141

Libraries

142

Lorca

143

AS Byatt and The Children's Book

144

Post-War Germany

145

Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners

146

New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture

147

Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

148

Women, art and activism

149

Shakespeare as inspiration

150

New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project

151

New Thinking: How and why we talk

152

The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023

153

New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going

154

New Thinking: Food

155

New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness

156

African identity via China and photography

157

Robert Aickman

158

Eliza Flower and non-conformist thinking

159

Sleep

160

Sankofa and Afrofuturism

161

Valis and Philip K Dick

162

Humours and The Body

163

Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork

164

New Thinking: Work and protest

165

Being Blonde

166

The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023

167

Art, Kew, a symphony and nature

168

New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness

169

Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life

170

Refuge and National Poetry Day

171

Slavic culture and myth

172

Hobbes and New Leviathans

173

Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival

174

Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski

175

Notebooks and new technology

176

Why go into space?

177

Black Atlantic

178

The Red Shoes

179

Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco

180

Wolfson Prize 2023

181

Writing and Place: The Cairngorms

182

Writing and Place: Cornwall

183

The Black Country past and present

184

Landladies

185

Depicting AIDS in Drama

186

Late works

187

Dark Places

188

ETA Hoffmann

189

My Neighbour Totoro

190

Oliver Postgate

191

The Wife of Bath

192

The Wife of Bath

193

Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

194

Writing and Place: Wales

195

Writing and Place: The North-East

196

Writing and Place: Northern Ireland

197

Rock Follies

198

Oxford Philosophy

199

Childhood and play

200

South Asia: poverty and princes

201

New Thinking: women and football

202

Liverpool Biennial + art at MIF

203

A lively Tudor world

204

New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS

205

New Thinking: Children and health

206

New Thinking: health inequalities

207

New Thinking: Design and health

208

New Thinking: Writing the NHS

209

Dystopian thinking

210

Julian the Apostate

211

Boyhood to manhood

212

Gut instinct

213

Diva

214

The Sorrows of Young Werther

215

Life, art and drama in the kitchen

216

Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

217

Portraits

218

Ideas about health

219

Adam Smith

220

Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes

221

Michel Piccoli

222

Nature Memoirs

223

Europe

224

The Troubles in Northern Ireland

225

Sneezing, smells and noses

226

Linda Grant and Jewish history

227

Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright

228

Essex

229

Rocky Horror and camp

230

Zimbabwean writing

231

Agoraphobia

232

Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science

233

Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe

234

Kingship and ceremony

235

Sidney Poitier

236

Sound, conflict and central heating

237

Lady Antonia Fraser

238

Queen Charlotte, fashion and music

239

New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day

240

Hilma af Klint

241

Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing

242

Galatea and Shakespeare

243

Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite

244

Land and soil politics

245

Ginger Rogers

246

Children of the Waters

247

Pirates

248

Revolutionary free speech

249

Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice

250

Religion and Science

251

A family of witches

252

New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld

253

The Rossettis and Walter Pater

254

Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2023

255

Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea

256

Translating Cultures

257

East Germany

258

The culture of Albania

259

New Thinking: AI, feminism, human/machines

260

Busking and Billy Waters

261

The wicked? stepmother

262

Decadent Art

263

Debt

264

New Thinking: British Sign Language

265

Making Your Voice Heard

266

Anarchism and David Graeber

267

Dom Sylvester Houédard

268

Sesame Street and Soviet culture

269

Tin cans, cutlery and sewing

270

Ghosts of Caribbean History

271

Climate change and empire building

272

Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur

273

Idrissa Ouédraogo

274

Stories of Love

275

Donkeys

276

The Heir of Redclyffe

277

Lady Macbeth

278

Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills

279

Gwendolyn Brooks

280

The mermaid-like Mélusine

281

Crossroads and TV soaps

282

The English Civil War

283

Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

284

William Stukeley

285

Audrey Hepburn

286

Higher Education for women and working class students

287

The Wife of Bath

288

New Thinking: Language Loss and revival

289

Anna Kavan

290

Phillis Wheatley

291

Katherine Mansfield & Mavis Gallant

292

Amílcar Cabral

293

Wilkie Collins & disability

294

1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions

295

1922: Leisure and Sport

296

1922: The Hollywood Bowl

297

1922:Food fads

298

1922: Reader's Digest

299

Landladies

300

Bestiaries and Beyond

301

Lists

302

Depicting AIDS in Drama

303

Trapeze acts and circus celebrities

304

New Thinking: Language, the Victorians and Us

305

How do we look at Art?

306

Soil, Chickens and City Farms

307

Star Trek

308

Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment

309

Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales

310

New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history

311

New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history

312

St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche

313

Going Underground

314

Experimental writing

315

New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022

316

New Thinking: Net Zero Design

317

Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu

318

George Bernard Shaw

319

Plastic and Clay

320

The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022

321

John Knox

322

Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics

323

Alexander the Great

324

New Thinking: Beowulf

325

Ghostwatch

326

Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire

327

New Thinking: Dead Languages

328

Oliver Postgate

329

British Academy Book Prize 2022

330

Romanticism Revisited

331

The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022

332

New Thinking: Accents

333

Miles Davis and On The Corner

334

How We Read

335

Female power and influence past and present

336

My Neighbour Totoro

337

John Cowper Powys

338

Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance

339

Ibsen

340

The Black Country - past and present

341

The Black Country - past and present

342

The Normans

343

Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales

344

Immortality

345

The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries

346

New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?

347

1922: The Hollywood Bowl

348

1922: The Lincoln Memorial

349

Prison Break

350

Egyptian Satire

351

Pogroms and Prejudice

352

Facing Facts

353

Dam Fever and the Diaspora

354

1922: Allotments

355

1922: Nanook of the North

356

1922: Leisure and the body

357

1922: Food

358

Not Quite Jean Muir

359

Tudor Virtual Reality

360

Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care

361

Digging Deep

362

Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

363

Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

364

Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

365

Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf

366

1922: Wimbledon

367

Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

368

1922: Reader's Digest

369

Touki Bouki

370

Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

371

New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth ties

372

Futurism

373

Modernism around the world

374

New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping

375

The Daleks

376

Satyajit Ray's films

377

France, music hall and history

378

Women warriors and power brokers

379

The Black Fantastic

380

Writing about money

381

New Thinking: India in the archives

382

Vampires and the Penny Dreadful

383

David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist

384

Belief, Habit & Religion

385

Late works

386

ETA Hoffmann

387

New Thinking: Waiting

388

Sheffield reinvented

389

Slow Film and Ecology

390

Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922

391

South African writing

392

John McGrath's Scottish Drama

393

Victorian streets

394

The Wolfson Prize 2022

395

New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities

396

Get Carter

397

Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy

398

Oceans and the Sea

399

New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet

400

New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art

401

New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown

402

Tudor families

403

The Tudor Mind

404

Tattoos

405

Goddesses

406

Gandhi, Indian Architecture

407

Soil

408

Speaking Welsh

409

New Thinking: Flooding and Energy

410

Soho

411

Mental Health

412

Odessa Stories

413

Pause for Thought

414

Opium Tales

415

New Generation Thinkers: Alexander and the Persians

416

Windows

417

Kawanabe Kyōsai and Yukio Mishima

418

A Brazilian soprano in jazz-age Paris

419

John Baptist Dasalu and fighting for freedom

420

May Day rituals

421

New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation

422

Rainer Maria Rilke

423

New Generation Thinkers: Walking with the ghosts of the Durham coalfield

424

Teaching and Inspiration

425

Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound

426

New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage

427

Housework

428

Ships and History

429

Grief

430

China: world politics, ink art & insomnia

431

Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment

432

New Generation Thinkers 2022

433

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap

434

Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon

435

After Dark Festival: Dark Places

436

After Dark Festival: Equinox

437

John Maynard Keynes

438

Vikings

439

The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture

440

Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring

441

Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history

442

Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns

443

Fashion Stories: In a handbag

444

Fashion Stories: Body Armour

445

Blackmail & Shame

446

New Thinking: Women’s history

447

New Thinking: Women’s history

448

Sisters

449

The Generation Gap

450

The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain

451

Climate change, nature and art

452

Perfecting The Body

453

New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets

454

Pankaj Mishra, research into Indian history

455

Artists' models and fame

456

Hitchhiking

457

China, Freud, war and sci fi

458

Stonehenge history

459

Existential Risk

460

Whale watching

461

Whale-watching

462

Diverse Classical Music II

463

Futurism

464

Modernism Around The World

465

Paper

466

How To Make A Modernist Masterpiece

467

Asta Nielsen

468

Yishai Sarid; marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

469

New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music

470

Touki Bouki

471

New Thinking: Mental Health Research

472

Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones

473

Altered States

474

Mélusine

475

Adapting Molière

476

Appeasement

477

Gloves

478

Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave

479

Fungi: An Alien Encounter

480

Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue

481

Early Buddhism; Sheila Rowbotham

482

Witchcraft and Margaret Murray

483

The TV Debate

484

New Thinking: Research in Film Award Winners 2021

485

Ground-breaking history books

486

The Day of the Triffids

487

Caribbean art

488

Dürer, Rhinos and Whales

489

Toys

490

Christopher Logue's War Music

491

Romanian history and literature

492

New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration

493

Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil

494

Marvin Gaye's What's Going On

495

Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

496

New Thinking: Being Human 2021

497

Green Thinking: Climate Justice

498

The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021

499

Green Thinking: Future of Home

500

God's Body

501

Green Thinking: Activism and Young People

502

Green Thinking: Energy

503

Caesar, Hogarth and images of power

504

Oceans, art and pacific poetry

505

Green Thinking: Law

506

Time

507

Green Thinking: Media

508

New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music

509

Green Thinking: Trees

510

Twilight

511

Green Thinking: Sustainable Development

512

Celebrating Buchi Emecheta

513

The Language of Flowers

514

Green Thinking: History of climate summits

515

Rationality & Tradition

516

Green Thinking: Landscapes

517

New Thinking: Black British Theatre. An Afro-Cuban star

518

Green Thinking: how we see nature

519

Sugar

520

Colour

521

Frieze: Museums in the 21st century

522

Green Thinking: Health

523

Choice

524

New Thinking: Black British Theatre

525

The British Academy Book Prize 2021

526

Breakfast

527

Green Thinking: Transport

528

Order & Chaos

529

Thomas Mann

530

New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time

531

The continuing appeal of Tudor history

532

Punk

533

Green Thinking: Soil

534

Hannah Arendt's exploration of Totalitarianism

535

Belonging

536

Green Thinking: Fashion

537

Glitches

538

Dante's visions

539

Saint John Henry Newman

540

Revisit Shoes

541

Revisit The influence of the British black arts movement

542

Revisit: Tokyo Idols and Urban Life

543

Revisit Rashōmon

544

Green Thinking: Food

545

Bette Davis

546

Connecting with nature

547

Alain Robbe-Grillet

548

Green Thinking: Weather

549

Breathe

550

Green Thinking: Festivals

551

Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence

552

Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence

553

Epic Iran, lost cities and Proust

554

The English country house party

555

Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

556

New Thinking:The Innovative Shape of Poems

557

Green Thinking: Sustainable Cities

558

Cornwall and the Coastal Gothic

559

Green Thinking: Climate Change and Heritage

560

World's Fairs and the future

561

Green Thinking: Climate Change and Literature

562

Mid Century Modern

563

Building London

564

Masks

565

Displacement

566

Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas

567

Green Thinking: Climate and Refugees

568

How anthropology helps us understand the world

569

How anthropology helps us understand the world

570

Green Thinking: Hot Money

571

Beryl Vertue

572

Women's Art

573

Green Thinking: Seascapes and Blue Gold

574

Green Thinking: Climate and Conflict

575

Green Thinking: Future of Work

576

Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?

577

Alice and Dreaming

578

New Thinking: The Botanical Past

579

Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100

580

Fashion, Art, and the Body

581

Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?

582

Who needs critics?

583

Ghosts of the Spanish civil war

584

The Wolfson History Prize 2021

585

Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings

586

New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data

587

Marlon James and Neil Gaiman

588

Alison Bechdel

589

Napoleon the gardener and art thief

590

Samuel Johnson's circle

591

Northern Ireland

592

New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale

593

New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop

594

Links between Judaism and Christianity

595

Epistemic Injustice

596

New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers

597

New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds

598

New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far

599

New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?

600

Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future

601

New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup

602

New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons

603

The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress

604

Maryse Condé's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan

605

New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire

606

The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins

607

Jacques Tati's Trafic

608

Octavia Butler's Kindred

609

Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia

610

Milton: Samson Agonistes

611

John Milton's Samson Agonistes

612

The Liverpool Biennial debate

613

Spy talk

614

From Blackface to Beyoncé

615

Writing About Faith

616

Churchill's reputation

617

Pleasure

618

Frantz Fanon

619

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There

620

Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer

621

Syria: hope and poetry

622

Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021

623

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala

624

Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman

625

New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?

626

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard

627

Edward Said's thinking

628

The Vietnam Paris connection

629

New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk

630

Speech, Voice, Accents and AI Free Thinking

631

Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith

632

New Thinking: Girls

633

Saint John Henry Newman

634

Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4

635

Humans, Animals, Ecologies

E
636

Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien & Violette Leduc

637

Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history

638

Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies

639

Coins, the magic money tree and a cashless world

640

Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)

E
641

New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums

642

Class and social mobility

643

Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman

644

New Thinking: Eco-Criticism

645

What Makes a Good Lecture?

646

Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France

647

Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan

648

John Rawls's A Theory of Justice

649

James Baldwin and race in USA

650

Harlots & 18th Century Working Women

651

Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil

652

New Thinking: Women and Slavery

653

Autism, film and patterns

654

New Thinking: Aphra Behn

655

Dostoevsky

656

Mildred Pierce

657

Marlene Dietrich

658

Winter Light

659

Hegel's Philosophy of Right

660

Ancient wisdom & remote living

661

New Thinking: Hey Presto!

662

New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

663

The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age

664

Times of Change

665

Mould-Breaking Writing

666

When Shakespeare Travelled with Me

667

Leadership & authority

668

Politician and Pioneer

669

Beastly Politics

670

Bedrooms

671

Byron, celebrity and fan mail

672

Should biographers imitate their subjects?

673

Democracy, Hong Kong and USA

674

Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

675

New Thinking: Films and Research

676

New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries

677

Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse

678

The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020

679

Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters

680

Billy Wilder

681

New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture

682

War in fact and fiction

683

Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic

684

Individualism and Community

685

The post-Covid city

686

The Writing of Aime Cesaire

687

Polari Prize winners

688

Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.

689

Post Truth & Derrida

690

Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid

691

New Thinking about Museums

692

The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century

693

Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes

694

New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois

695

Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

696

Cows in culture and soil

697

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020

698

Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures

699

New Thinking: The impact of being multilingual

700

Get Carter

701

Family ties and reshaping history

702

New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History

703

Piranesi and disturbing archecture

704

The Radiophonic Workshop

705

Greek classics and the sea plus a pair of novels byTolstoy and Dostoevsky

706

Wole Soyinka's writing

707

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

708

Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland

709

Dada and the power of Nonsense

710

Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains

711

New Thinking:Nature Writing

712

Magic

713

How do we build a new masculinity ?

714

Egyptian Satire

715

Pogroms and prejudice

716

The consolation of philosophy and stories

717

What does a black history curriculum look like?

718

Prison Break

719

Facing Facts

720

Gambling, good leadership and economic history

721

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

722

Dam Fever and The Diaspora

723

Not Quite Jean Muir

724

Digging Deep

725

Tudor Virtual Reality

726

Coming out Crip and Acts of Care

727

Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

728

Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam

729

Revisit: Arundhati Roy

730

Rethinking the Curriculum

731

Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology

732

Queer Bloomsbury and stillness in art and dance

733

Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species

734

New Thinking: Refugees

735

The future of theatre debate

736

Failure and female friendship

737

Dickens

738

New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery

739

Robin Askwith

E
740

Revisit: Tokyo Story

741

Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

742

Sarah Perry

743

Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken

744

Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden

745

Kindness

746

The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi

747

Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion

748

The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton

749

WW II radio propaganda & French relations

750

Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia

751

Revisit: Mark Haddon

752

Cary Grant

753

Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

754

Alternative Realities

755

Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf

756

Deep Time and the Earth

757

Belonging

758

New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives

759

Revisit: What does game playing teach us

760

Knees

761

New Thinking: Wordsworth

762

The Declaration Of Arbroath

763

How do we build a new masculinity ?

764

What's so great about EM Forster

765

Future Thinking

766

Contagion and Viruses

767

Shoes

768

New Thinking: Science Fiction

769

Does Growth Matter?

770

Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture

771

Advertising & Artemisia

772

Fighting Women

773

Jewish Identity in 2020

774

Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

775

Frank Ramsey

776

New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality

777

Anne Enright + the value of gossip

778

Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf

779

Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

780

Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

781

Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

782

How archictecture shapes society

783

New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people

784

Japan Now 2020

785

Genes, racism, ageing and evidence

786

African Empire Stories

787

The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky

788

Queer histories

789

The History of Sex

E
790

The shadow of slavery

791

Early cinema: why are we obsessed with firsts?

792

Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture

793

Mocking power past and present.

794

New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution

795

Fungi: An Alien Encounter

796

How we see pregnancy past and present

797

Remembering Auschwitz

798

What is good listening?

799

Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse

800

Goddesses of academia

801

New Thinking: About Face

802

Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future

803

Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"

804

Simplify your life

805

Philosophy and Film

806

Could there be a private language?

807

Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?

808

The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile

809

The culture wars and politics now.

810

Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World

811

New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories

812

Speaking the right language.

813

The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton

814

Pan-Africanism

815

The shadow of empire and colonialism

816

Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security

817

When TV & the information superhighway were new

818

Resting And Rushing

819

The future of universities

820

Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?

821

New Thinking: George Eliot

822

The Mill on the Floss

823

Are the arts saving Margate?

824

Why We Need New News

825

The Legacy of the Trojan War

826

New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019

827

Being Human: Love Stories

828

The Changing Image of Masculinity.

829

Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture

830

The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate

831

Quatermass

832

New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany

833

Halloween. Ghost Stories

834

Cars, Parking and Motorways

835

Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell

836

Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby

837

What to Believe

838

New Thinking: First Encounters

839

Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate

840

Dictators

841

The Woolly Episode

842

2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts

843

East Meets West

844

Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill

845

Modern Dutch Writing

846

The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art

847

Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day.

848

New Thinking: Places of Poetry & The Colonial Countryside Project

849

From The Spains to LatinX

850

Surveillance, Conspiracy, and Secrets from the Archives

851

Anxiety

852

Back to the '80s

853

Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation

854

Tolerance, censorship and free speech.

855

New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability

856

Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft

857

Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving Home

858

Proms Plus: Letters

859

Proms Plus: Sacrifice

860

Proms Plus: Landscape

861

Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy

862

Proms Plus: Beethoven's 9th Symphony

863

Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books

864

Proms Plus: Russian Folktales

865

Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan

866

Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun

867

Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes

868

Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction

869

Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.

870

Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience

871

Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky

872

Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe

873

Proms Plus: Tragedy

874

Proms Plus: Swans

875

Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking

876

Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark

877

Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer

878

Proms Plus: Music and Health

879

Proms Plus: Moon Landing

880

Book Parts and Difficulty

881

New angles on post-war Germany and Austria

882

New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations

883

New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language

884

New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles

885

New Thinking: City Talk

886

Camille Paglia

887

An insider's view of war

888

Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.

889

Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good

890

Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.

891

Russia and Fear.

892

Free Thinking: Language and Belonging

893

Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.

894

Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming

895

Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak

896

The Hard Man in the Call-Centre

897

James Ellroy

898

'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The history of the three-piece suit

899

Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali

900

Comrades in Arms

901

Landmark: Finnegans Wake

902

Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir

903

The well-groomed Georgian

904

Afropean Identities. Filming the Arab Spring.

905

Michael Rakowitz, Archaeology Now, Epic Journeys and Facial Disfigurement

906

Breaking Down the Barriers

907

Orwell's 1984. A Landmark of Culture.

908

Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?

909

AI and creativity: what makes us human?

910

Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay.

911

Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

912

Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy

913

Censorship and sex

914

Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn Forché

915

Rivers, different cultures, different values

916

Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration

917

Rivers and geopolitics

918

Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.

919

Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.

920

Wolfson History Prize Discussion.

921

Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model

922

Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize

923

Landmark: Audre Lorde

E
924

Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers

925

20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World.

926

Does My Pet Love Me?

927

The New Age of Sentimentality

928

Why We Need Weepies

929

The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion

930

Should Doctors Cry?

931

Where Do Human Rights Come From?

932

The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea

933

The Unsaid

934

Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?

935

The Way We Used To Feel

936

Who Wrote Animal Farm?

937

How They Manipulate Our Emotions

938

Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival

939

Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century

940

The Emotion of Now

941

Healthy Eating Edwardian Style

942

'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get?

943

Shopping Around the Baby Market

944

Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go

945

Being Diplomatic

946

The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama

947

Anxiety and the Teenage Brain

948

A city is not a park but should it be?

949

Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson

950

Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture

951

Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?

952

Betrayal

953

Childhood faces and fears

954

Empathy

955

George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri

956

Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women

957

The Council Estate in Culture

958

Is British Culture Getting Wierder?

959

Women, relationships and the law past and present

960

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

961

David Bailey, Don McCullin

E
962

The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.

963

Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft

964

Jack the Ripper and women as victims

965

Images of Japan

966

Authority in the Era of Populism

967

The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature

968

Patti LuPone

969

Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance

970

Love

971

Africa Babel China

972

Spike Lee

973

Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds

E
974

Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.

975

Street Culture, Protests, Food.

976

Sea Goings

977

Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose

978

Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.

979

Consent

980

Slow Looking at Art

981

Oscars 2019

982

Icons.

983

Tourism past and present

984

Walls

985

Boredom

986

Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette

987

Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box

988

The Digital Humanities

989

Landmark: Watership Down

990

What does game playing teach us?

991

Trees of Knowledge

992

Ice

993

Linton Kwesi Johnson

994

Writing and Frankness

995

Are we being manipulated?

996

Is there a great divide between the arts and science?

997

Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality

998

Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.

999

Slavery Stories

1000

Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books

1001

Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.

1002

The Left Behind

1003

What kind of history should we write?

1004

Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.

1005

Death rituals

1006

Lost Words and Language

1007

Why are we silent when conflict is loud?

1008

Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War

1009

Landmark: Journey to the End of the Night

1010

Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.

1011

Re-thinking the Human Condition

1012

Religious divisions, puppet shows and politics.

1013

The Memes that Make Us Laugh

1014

From the Gallows to the Holy Land: Medieval Pilgrimage

1015

The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction.

1016

Mike Leigh

1017

Playing God

1018

Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands

1019

Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot.

1020

Re-writing C20th British Philosophy

1021

Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires

1022

Discrimination

1023

Greed and Landownership Past, Present, Future

1024

Drugs and Consciousness

1025

A Feminist Take on Medieval History

1026

The Frieze Debate: Museums in the 21st Century

1027

Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, Spookiness and Fear.

1028

Gandhi's power, portable citizenship & Indian writing - China's missing film star

1029

Loss, Grief and Anger

1030

Slavoj Žižek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose

1031

The Goodies

1032

What Nietzsche teaches us

1033

What Camus and Claude Lévi-Strauss teach us

1034

What St Augustine teaches us

1035

Proms Plus: Retelling Troy

1036

Sebastian Faulks

1037

Women Finding a Voice

1038

Design

1039

Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature

1040

Proms Plus: Northern Lights

1041

Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety

1042

Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture

1043

Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES

1044

Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales

1045

Proms Plus: Ecstatic States

1046

Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania

1047

Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos

1048

Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry

1049

Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland

1050

Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction

1051

Proms Plus: Mountains

1052

Proms Plus: Funny Fiction

1053

Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined

1054

Proms Plus: Birds and Humans

1055

Proms Plus: The Wanderer

1056

Proms Plus – exploring the narrative voice in literature

1057

Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe

1058

Howard Jacobson

1059

Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard

1060

Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.

1061

From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living

1062

Renzo Piano

1063

What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.

1064

Fun Home, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter

1065

The body, past and present

1066

The Working Lunch and Food in History

1067

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman’s Rights

1068

John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet

1069

Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia

1070

The Forgotten German Princess

1071

Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler

1072

Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas

1073

Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz

1074

The Word For World Is Forest

1075

The Piano and Love

1076

Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'

1077

Mark Lilla. Owen Hatherley. Gulzaar Barn.

1078

The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President

1079

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley

1080

The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning

1081

American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.

1082

Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

1083

Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas

1084

Tacita Dean; Mountains, John Tyndall

1085

The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate

1086

In Conversation: Philip Roth (1933 - 2018)

1087

Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch

1088

Jordan B Peterson

1089

Designing the future

1090

John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism

1091

What is Speech?

1092

Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan

1093

Out of Control?

1094

Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars

1095

Marxism

1096

America: Inequality & Race

1097

Tokyo Idols and Urban life.

1098

Landmark: Rashōmon

1099

Japan and Nature

1100

Learning from Sweden

1101

Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer

1102

The Politics of Fashion and Drag

1103

Marilynne Robinson

1104

Macbeth and Things Fall Apart

1105

British New Wave Films of the '60s

1106

Death Comes to Us All

1107

What Do We Mean by "Working Class Writing"?

1108

Introducing the New Generation Thinkers 2018

1109

Building Bridges and Other Megastructures

1110

#Speaking Up

1111

Mass Hysterics

1112

Can There Be Multiple Versions of Me?

1113

Free Thinking Essay: What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?

1114

Rethinking Civilisations

1115

Free Thinking Essay: Kids With Guns

1116

Gangs, the Usual Suspects

1117

Free Thinking Essay: Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present

1118

Power to the People?

1119

Free Thinking Essay: When Shakespeare Travelled With Me

1120

Are We Afraid of Being Alone?

1121

Free Thinking Essay: A War of Words

1122

Free Thinking Essay: Doing Nothing

1123

Free Thinking Essay: Educating Ida

1124

Has Social Media Cracked the Code to the Crowd?

1125

Podcast: There Is No I in Team

1126

Free Thinking Essay: Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?

1127

Free Thinking Essay:Art for Health's Sake

1128

The Dance of Nature

1129

Free Thinking Essay: Welling Up: Women & Water in the Middle Ages

1130

The Population Bomb

1131

The Free Thinking Lecture: Linda Yueh on Globalisation

1132

New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement.

1133

The Golden Notebook

1134

A Sentimental Journey

1135

What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs

1136

The Joy of Bureaucracy

1137

Steven Pinker on Progress

1138

Napoleon in Fact & Fiction

1139

Reflecting Rural Life

1140

Free Thinking: Mark Dion; Colour, Insects, Virginia Woolf

1141

How Big Should the State Be?

1142

Michael Ignatieff and Central Europe

1143

Tariq Ali

1144

Celebrating Buchi Emecheta

1145

Trade, Davos, Ocean travel and Mermaids

1146

The Working Class in Culture

1147

Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries

1148

Burns the Radical; Exploration

1149

Royalty, art and patronage.

1150

Oscar Contenders, Movie Moguls and Silent Film Stars

1151

Frankenstein and AI now.

1152

French writing and politics

1153

Australian novelist Peter Carey.

1154

Counterculture and Protest

1155

The In Between

1156

Landmark: The Odyssey

1157

Diving Deep

1158

The Invention of the Circus Ring

1159

Rethinking Tradition

1160

A Literary Salon.

1161

Should We Keep Pets?

1162

Landmark - This Sporting Life

1163

Many faces of Eve?

1164

The Joy of Bad Films

1165

Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment

1166

Ken Burns – Flash photography - Joy

1167

Gentrification

1168

Free Thinking – David Willetts plus does scandal drive social change?

1169

Free Thinking – Religious Belief

1170

Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.

1171

Free Thinking – Being Human: Lost and Found in the Archives

1172

Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.

1173

Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

1174

Free Thinking: Poetry and Protest Newcastle

1175

Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

1176

Landmark – Man with a Movie Camera

1177

Free Thinking: Soviet Histories: Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

1178

The pros and cons of Swearing.

E
1179

Benjamin Britten and Radio

1180

Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art. History of British nature writing.

1181

Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner

1182

Free Thinking: Young Marx, Yanis Varoufakis and Ruth Lea and Tara Bergin

1183

Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

1184

Free Thinking: Landmark: Marnie

1185

The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

1186

Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

1187

Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley

1188

Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty

1189

Free Thinking - Blade Runner. Ghost Stories

1190

Free Thinking - Alan Hollinghurst

1191

Free Thinking: The importance of networks; the art of dance.

1192

Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress

1193

Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.

1194

Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido

1195

Free Thinking. Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World

1196

Testosterone. The grey zone. Indian science.

1197

Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.

1198

Free Thinking: Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.

1199

Free Thinking: Social Conservatism, Kathe Kollwitz and John Ashbery

1200

Free Thinking: Washing in public. Sir Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)

1201

Proms Extra: Alan Hollinghurst

1202

Proms Extra: Lenin

1203

Proms Extra: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

1204

Proms Extra: Ancient Rome

1205

Proms Extra: Unfinished Art and Literature

1206

Proms Extra: Djinn

1207

Proms Extra: Sleep and Insomnia

1208

Proms Extra: Cuneiform 07082017

1209

Proms Extra: Ella Fitzgerald

1210

Proms Extra: Sentimentality

1211

Proms Extra: Happiness

1212

Proms Extra: Sea Journeys and Voyages

1213

Proms Extra: Europe in Writing

1214

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

1215

Proms Extra: Music and Moods

1216

Proms Extra - Deep Time

1217

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

1218

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

1219

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

1220

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

1221

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

1222

Free Thinking: Food

1223

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

1224

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

1225

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

1226

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

1227

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

1228

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

1229

Free Thinking: Churchill, Pocahontas and The Idiot

1230

Free Thinking: Narcissism

1231

Free Thinking: Will Self, R. D. Laing and Mandy.

1232

Free Thinking: Political Sketch Writing. Enclosure Acts. 2017. Branwell Bronte. Pushkin House Book Prize 2017

1233

Free Thinking - Revenge: My Cousin Rachel, Natalie Haynes, 2017 New Generation Thinker Islam Issa.

1234

Free Thinking - Arundhati Roy

1235

Free Thinking - Hay 2017: Writing History with Sebastian Barry, Jake Arnott, Madeleine Thien.

1236

Free Thinking: Ecstasy. Carpe Diem. 2017 New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes on medieval ecstasy.

1237

Free Thinking: Hay 2017: Women's Voices in the Classical World.

1238

Free Thinking: Artist Tom Phillips at 80; How do we save our plants?

E
1239

Free Thinking - Japan and Korea. Hokusai

1240

Free Thinking - Bella Bathurst. Mike Figgis. Birds in British literature. 2017 New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt.

1241

Free Thinking: Fiona Shaw and Mark Ravenhill on Brecht, John Knox, 2017 New Generation Thinker Joanne Paul.

1242

Free Thinking: Rachel Seiffert. James Hawes,Richard Nelson. 2017 New Gen Thinker Alistair Fraser on gangs

1243

Free Thinking - Artist Taryn Simon. Deglobalisation. 2017 New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck on the circus.

1244

Free Thinking: Laurent Binet; the rise of blockchain tech.

1245

Free Thinking: Salomé, Angels in America, Queer British Art

1246

Free Thinking: The Wolfson Prize

1247

Free Thinking: Breaking Free: Landmark - Paradise Lost

1248

Free Thinking: Breaking Free - Martin Luther’s Revolution. New Research into the Reformation

1249

Free Thinking - Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution

1250

Free Thinking - Wellcome Book Prize, Civil Wars: Susan Buck-Morss and A.C. Grayling, Louisa Egbunike and Akachi Ezeigbo.

1251

Free Thinking - What now for environmentalism? With Paul Kingsnorth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman

1252

Free Thinking - Smell: Michele Roberts, A history of dentistry

1253

Free Thinking - Landmark: Leaves of Grass

1254

Free Thinking – John Irving

1255

Free Thinking - Writers Writing about Love

1256

Free Thinking - Taking the Long View with the Animal Kingdom

1257

Free Thinking - My Body Clock is Broken

1258

Free Thinking Festival: Time, Space and Science

1259

Free Thinking Festival: Writing Life

1260

Free Thinking at Uproot Festival

1261

Free Thinking: An interview with Haemin Sunim

1262

Free Thinking Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2017

1263

Free Thinking Festival: Education Slow and Fast

1264

Free Thinking Essay: Killing Time in Imperial Japan

1265

Free Thinking Festival: The Time of Your Life

1266

The Essay - Creating Modern India

1267

Free Thinking Essay: England's First European

1268

Free Thinking Festival: The Never-Ending Workday

1269

The Essay - The Magic Years

1270

Free Thinking Festival: The Speed of Revolution

1271

Essay - The Magic Years

1272

The Essay - Faith, Fire and the Family

1273

Free Thinking Festival: Doing Time/Confinement

1274

Free Thinking Essay: Russia's Sacred Ruins

1275

The Essay - The British Writer and the Refugee

1276

Free Thinking Festival: Quick Reactions

1277

The Essay - In the Shadows of Biafra

1278

Free Thinking Festival: How Short is a Short Story?

1279

Free Thinking Essay: Alexander the Great's Lost City

1280

Free Thinking Festival: Harriet Harman - Politics Fast and Slow

1281

Free Thinking Essay: Monks, Models and Medieval Time

1282

Free Thinking Festival: Faster, Faster, Faster?

1283

Free Thinking: Sleep - Freedom to Think

1284

Free Thinking - Rodney Graham at BALTIC, The Amber Collective.

1285

Free Thinking: Images of America

1286

Free Thinking - Michael Lewis.

1287

Free Thinking: Neglected Women: Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Charlotte Robinson.

1288

Free Thinking: Landmark: Machiavelli's The Prince

1289

Free Thinking - Neil Jordan, Flat Time House, Teletubbies

1290

Free Thinking: India/Pakistan: Mohsin Hamid. Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House. Preti Taneja and Sam Goodman

1291

Free Thinking - Japan Now Festival at the British Library.

1292

Free Thinking: 'Play' in urban design, Gillian Allnutt

1293

Soil Stories Old and New

1294

Free Thinking - Shakespeare in cartoons; Jess Phillips; Sidney Nolan's Australian legends.

1295

Free Thinking: Hull: A trip down memory lane.

1296

Free Thinking: Martin Luther- fundamentalist reactionary or enlightened creator of our modern world

1297

Free Thinking: Paolozzi; Daniel Dennett

1298

Rude Valentines. Neil Gaiman, Translating China's Arts

1299

Free Thinking: Professor Paul Gilroy

1300

Free Thinking: Robots, and an Icelandic Dracula

1301

Free Thinking: Russian Art and Revolution

1302

Borders: On the ground, on the map, in the mind

1303

Free Thinking: Anger and friendships with Pankaj Mishra and Elif Shafak.

1304

Free Thinking - Caribbean Culture.

1305

Free Thinking: Yaa Gyasi. Daniel Levitin. Peter Bazalgette, James Bartholomew on Clarity, Civility and Strong States.

1306

Davos Discussions. Shobana Jeyasingh. New Generation Thinker Seán Williams

1307

Free Thinking: Oscar Nominations; T2 Trainspotting; Denial

1308

Free Thinking - Victorian Bodies, Citizens of Everywhere

1309

Free Thinking - The influence of the British Black Art movement.

1310

Free Thinking: The War of the Worlds sequel, Eimear McBride

1311

Free Thinking - Chibundu Onuzo; Nadeem Aslam. Lockwood Kipling's art.

1312

Free Thinking: The Arts of Running

1313

Free Thinking: La La Land and Hollywood - past and present

1314

Free Thinking - Breaking Free: Karl Kraus - Jonathan Franzen.

1315

Free Thinking: Patriotism: The Union Jack

1316

Free Thinking - Patriotism: China, Russia, Japan, Latin America.

1317

Free Thinking - Patriotism: Alain Finkielkraut, Karim Miské

1318

Free Thinking: Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris.

1319

Free Thinking: John Simpson on the death of the war correspondent.

1320

Free Thinking - A Brexit reading list.

1321

Our Relationship with Animals: Will Abberley, Chris Packham, Helen Pilcher, Alan Hook

1322

Maths: Alex Bellos, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Serafina Cuomo, Vicky Neale

1323

Free Thinking - Voices in Our Ears: Colin Grant, Josie Rourke, Charles Fernyhough, Clare Walker Gore

1324

Free Thinking - Rauschenberg - performance, identity and the writings of Erving Goffman.

1325

Elites.

1326

The Weird. Science and Art at FACT. Japanese film Your Name.

1327

Schiller's Mary Stuart; Günter Grass. Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves.

1328

Zadie Smith

1329

Free Thinking - Beards. Listening. Masculinity.

1330

Free Thinking: Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

1331

Free Thinking - Being Human: New Generation Thinkers explore Escape, Lying and Fear.

1332

Free Thinking - Being Human Debate at FACT, Liverpool: Man and Animals

1333

Free Thinking - Art Spiegelman. Marina Abramovic. American Pastoral.

1334

Free Thinking - Black British History.

1335

Free Thinking: Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All

1336

Free Thinking - Landmark: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley

1337

Free Thinking - Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant; Yuval Noah Harari.

1338

Free Thinking - Whose Book Is It Anyway?

1339

Free Thinking: Enoch Powell; US Supreme Court; War & Art

1340

Free Thinking- William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.

1341

Free Thinking - Richard Hakluyt; Man Booker Prize; Chickens in the Anthropocene; Shirley Jackson.

1342

Free Thinking: Artes Mundi Prize. Harriet Walter. Amitav Ghosh. Edmund Richardson

1343

Free Thinking - Paul Nash; George Szirtes; Hungary 1956 and now.

1344

Free Thinking: Kevin Brownlow

1345

Free Thinking: Caravaggio; Bob Dylan; Dario Fo; Lenin's train journey.

1346

Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers - Teju Cole

1347

Free Thinking: Outsiders and Colin Wilson. Norse sagas. The Vulgar.

1348

Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman

1349

Free Thinking: Wells' Women

1350

Free Thinking - Sound Frontiers: Kamila Shamsie, Nikesh Shukla, Drugs in the German Reich. Board Games.

1351

Free Thinking - Sound Frontiers: Books of 1946

1352

Free Thinking - Sound Frontiers: Success debated by Peter Frankopan, Edith Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah

1353

Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: People Power

1354

Free Thinking: Medieval Manuscripts. Emma Donoghue.

1355

Free Thinking: American Power? Suzan-Lori Parks. Gary Younge. Abstract Expressionism.

1356

Free Thinking: Shelina Janmohamed. Edward Ardizzone's Art. Jewish identity in fiction

1357

Free Thinking: Energy and Landscape: Edward Burtynsky, Ella Hickson

1358

Free Thinking - Thames Estuary Festival, Jatinder Verma, Arne Næss

1359

Proms Poetry Competition

1360

Free Thinking - Aphra Behn. 1066 and the South Coast. Mark Thompson

1361

Proms Extra: Capability Brown: Anna Pavord

1362

Proms Extra: The Great Fire of London

1363

Proms Extra: Tagore

1364

Proms Extra: Germany East and West

1365

Proms Extra: Devils and Paganini

1366

Proms Extra: Shakespeare – Actors and Acting

1367

Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Sheep and Shepherds

1368

Proms Interval: What's In A Name?

1369

Proms Extra: HG Wells: Stephen Baxter and Dr Sarah Dillon

1370

Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Shipwrecks and Sea Captains

1371

Proms Extra: George Eliot in Germany

1372

Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Law and Lawyers

1373

Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Religion and Clerics

1374

Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Soldiers and War

1375

Proms Extra: The Politics of Shaving with Shahidah Bari,

1376

Proms Extra:Henry James and Italy

1377

Proms Extra: Charlotte Brontë: Gregory Tate talks to Joanne Harris & Claire Harman

1378

Proms Lecture: Frank Cottrell-Boyce

1379

Free Thinking - Rio, addiction, and saying the unsayable

1380

Free Thinking - War: Tear Gas. New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri on the Spanish Civil War. Iraq.

1381

Free Thinking - Liverpool Biennial 2016

1382

Free Thinking - Scotland, Wales and the Ukraine: New Generation Thinker Victoria Donovan. The 2016 Caine Prize.

1383

Free Thinking: The Desert: Geoff Dyer, Laurence Scott, Georgia O'Keeffe

1384

Free Thinking - Hisham Matar. Street Furniture. Easternisation. New Generation Thinker Katherine Cooper on Storm Jameson.

1385

Free Thinking - Post Referendum reflections and New Generation Thinker Chris Kissane on citizenship.

1386

Free Thinking - Tony Garnett

1387

Free Thinking - Walter Benjamin; A cultural history of the body; Edvard Munch; Soviet Superwoman

1388

Free Thinking - Universities: Therapy or Learning?

1389

Free Thinking: Hands - The Anatomical Venus

1390

Free Thinking - Nottingham Contemporary Art Debate: Elizabeth Price, Alice Channer.

1391

Free Thinking - Jane Mayer Dark Money - Money & US Politics - Flora Nwapa's Efuru - African Literature - Emma Cline The Girls

1392

Free Thinking - Mystics and Reality: Joanna Kavenna, Dorothy Cross, Jo Dunkley, New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson.

1393

Free Thinking - Archaelogy: Alexandra Sofroniew, Damian Robinson, Raimund Karl, Susan Greaney.

1394

Free Thinking - Peter Singer

1395

Free Thinking - Sjón, Winifred Knights. Katie Roiphe. New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson.

1396

Free Thinking - Bhupen Khakhar. The City State of London? Saskia Sassen, Jane Morris, David Anderson and Pat Kane.

1397

Free Thinking: Hay Festival: Inheritance - Steve Jones, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James

1398

Free Thinking - Hay Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2016

1399

Free Thinking - Tale of Genji. Algorithms.

1400

Free Thinking - Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm.

1401

Free Thinking - Photographers Dorothy Bohm, Wolfgang Suschitzky, Neil Libbert. Carry On Films.

1402

Free Thinking - Beauty: Dame Fiona Reynolds. The Bowes Museum. David Willetts on The State.

1403

Free Thinking - Landmark: In Parenthesis, by David Jones

1404

Free Thinking - Transformations: Becoming a Goat, Neil Bartlett

1405

Free Thinking - Germany: Neil MacGregor. A.T. Williams & Philippe Sands. Threepenny Opera. Volker Kutscher.

1406

Free Thinking - The Cultural Revolution

1407

Free Thinking - Revolutionary thinking: Paul Mason, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Dacher Keltner.

1408

Free Thinking - Writers Writing about Love

1409

Free Thinking - Olafur Eliasson. Andrey Kurkov. Mary Dejevsky and Zinovy Zinik on Soviet Culture.

1410

Free Thinking - Concrete: Marina Lewycka, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Lynsey Hanley

1411

Free Thinking - TE Lawrence on stage. Jeremy Thorpe. Privacy.

1412

Free Thinking - The Winter's Tale Landmark

1413

Free Thinking - Sounds of Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Bookshelf

1414

Free Thinking - Sicily. John Hardyng's Chronicle. The London Library

1415

Free Thinking - Slavoj Zizek.

1416

Free Thinking - Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker.

1417

Free Thinking - Syrian buildings. Judging Book Prizes. Georgian Literature

1418

British Conceptual Art.

1419

Jonathan Coe and Richard Cameron on stage at Birmingham Rep

1420

Free Thinking - Economics: Liam Byrne, John Redwood, Luke Johnson, Juliet Michaelson and Matt Wolf

1421

Free Thinking - Saki. Ria Sattouf. Anders Lustgarten. ‘A Thing’

1422

Evelyn Waugh.

1423

Free Thinking: Light: Ann Wroe, Dan Flavin, Blackpool Illuminations, The Sun.

1424

Nationalisms: Jerry Brotton, Elif Shafak, John Breuilly

1425

Suits. Neil LaBute

1426

Free Thinking - The Green Man. George Monbiot.

1427

Free Thinking – Daniel Clowes; Alan Clarke's TV career; Ken Loach tribute to Barry Hines

1428

Free Thinking - Russia and the Arts: Julian Barnes, Roxana Silbert and Suhayla El-Bushra

1429

Free Thinking - Philosophy: Bryan Magee

1430

Free Thinking – Identity in Britain: Martin Parr.

1431

Free Thinking – The Holy Roman Empire; Peter H Wilson, Janet Soskice, Rupert Shortt. Iranian art

1432

Free Thinking – Javier Marias; Cervantes; Spanish politics today

1433

Free Thinking - International Women's Day: Hollie McNish, Emily Hall, Helen Pearson, Edwina Attlee and Ailsa Grant Ferguson

1434

Free Thinking - Botticelli Reimagined, A New Biography of Hitler

1435

Anger.

1436

Free Thinking – Neil Jordan, The Lonely City

1437

Free Thinking – Russian Culture Inwards and Outwards

1438

Free Thinking

1439

Free Thinking

1440

Free Thinking - Religion Without Belief: Buddhist thinker Stephen Batchelor; Kader Abdolah; Linda Woodhead

1441

Free Thinking - Utopianism in Politics

1442

Free Thinking – Delacroix. Petain, De Gaulle. Jonathan Lynn

1443

Free Thinking – Hieronymus Bosch anniversary

1444

Free Thinking – Screaming Lord Sutch on Stage. Margaret McMillan. Artificial Neural Networks.

1445

Free Thinking - Dadaism's 100th anniversary

1446

Dadaism's 100th anniversary.

1447

Free Thinking - Dadaism's 100th anniversary

1448

Free Thinking -Joseph Crawhall; Madame Bovary by Peepolykus; Rona Munro's The James plays; and Matthew Parris on biography.

1449

Free Thinking – John Irving

1450

Free Thinking - Dad's Army; States of Mind at the Wellcome Institute; Utopia in sci-fi

1451

Radio 3 broadcasts Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' this Sunday 31 Jan 2016 as the Sunday Drama.

1452

Free Thinking - Anna Pavord: Gardens in Art. University funding.

1453

Free Thinking - Stefan Zweig, Howard Jacobson, Michael Sandle

1454

Free Thinking - Con Men; John Dee; F For Fake

1455

Free Thinking - The Arab Spring, Sahar Assaf, Owen Hatherley, Social Media and Language

1456

Free Thinking - Holes in the Ground

1457

Free Thinking Landmark: The Picture of Dorian Gray

1458

Free Thinking - The Oscars

1459

Free Thinking - French thought and politics.

1460

Free Thinking - TS Eliot poetry prize winner. Lisa Randall on dark matter.

1461

Free Thinking - Velasquez; John Bratby; Pan Haggerty

1462

Free Thinking – Landmark: Lorraine Hansberry

1463

Free Thinking -Teenage life: David and Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine, Iroise Dumontheil, Simon Stephens

1464

Free Thinking - Star Wars. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Ruth Scurr on John Aubrey. Beowulf.

1465

Free Thinking - Cities and Safety

1466

Free Thinking - Northern Lights Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries

1467

Free Thinking - Must The Arts Be Relevant?

1468

Free Thinking - Northern Lights: crime fiction and cold settings

1469

Free Thinking Festival: Northern Lights: Joanne Harris on the Norse god Loki

1470

Free Thinking - Mein Kampf; Larissa MacFarquhar; Julia Margaret Cameron

1471

Free Thinking - Kenzaburo Oe, Artist and Empire at Tate Britain, Japan and Cool Now

1472

Free Thinking - Umberto Eco

1473

Rule Making and Rule Breaking for Women and Men.

1474

Free Thinking Festival - Breathalysing Britain: Free Spirits or a Drain on Society?

1475

Free Thinking Festival - Work Available: No Humans Need Apply

1476

Free Thinking Festival - Stage Directions

1477

Free Thinking Festival - The Family Is Dead! Long Live the Family!

1478

Free Thinking Festival – Landmark: Angela Carter

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1479

The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Sculpture and Seduction in the 18th Century

1480

The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Jews in Occupied France: Coexistence with the Enemy?

1481

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Beer and the British Empire

1482

Free Thinking Festival - The Rules Of Good Science

1483

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Inside a Pirate’s Cookbook: A Culinary Journey through the 17th Century

1484

The Free Thinking Festival Essay: The Medieval Scottish Dream State

1485

Free Thinking Festival - Old Ways, New Directions.

1486

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Kilts, Celts and Clearances in World War One

1487

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Nancy Cunard: The Rebellious Heiress

1488

Free Thinking Festival - Putting Competition to the Test

1489

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Women on Their Own: Widows in Britain, Now and Then

1490

Free Thinking Festival - In Conversation With Richard Dawkins

1491

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Politician and Pioneer: Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh

1492

Free Thinking Festival - Breaking News - Telling Stories in Fact and Fiction

1493

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - The Moor of Florence A Medici Mystery

1494

Free Thinking Festival - Rule Breakers or Rule Makers?

1495

The Free Thinking Festival Lecture: Claudia Rankine

1496

Free Thinking - Peggy Seeger

1497

Free Thinking - Edna O'Brien

1498

Free Thinking – Putin & Putinism. Salford Lads Club. ‘No Platforming’. Tribute to Philip French.

1499

Free Thinking - Feature: Bamburgh Castle

1500

Free Thinking - Medical Surgery Past and Present

1501

Free Thinking - Erica Jong. Richard Jones. Ben Bernanke

1502

Free Thinking - Witch finding. Marina Warner.

1503

Free Thinking - James Bond in Spectre. Nawal El Saadawi; Lord Browne.

1504

Free Thinking - Home. Marilynne Robinson. Edwin Heathcote. Thomas Harding. Imtiaz Dharker

1505

Free Thinking - Richard Mabey; Andrea Wulf on Humboldt; Stanley Nelson on The Black Panthers

1506

Free Thinking - Meera Syal & Tanika Gupta In Conversation at Birmingham Rep

1507

Free Thinking - Salman Rushdie. Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger.

1508

Free Thinking - Man Booker Winner. Weather and Twilight. The Kibbo Kift.

1509

Free Thinking - Landmark: Leaves of Grass

1510

Free Thinking - Free Speech on Campus. Acting Arthur Miller

1511

Free Thinking - Suffragette. Thatcherism and Conservatism now. James Fenton.

1512

Free Thinking - James Shapiro, Macbeth on Film, Barrie Keeffe, East End museum

1513

Free Thinking - Populism. Romola Garai on Measure for Measure.

1514

Free Thinking - Margaret Atwood, Yuval Harari, Celts

1515

Free Thinking - Edmund de Waal, Orhan Pamuk

1516

Free Thinking - Sleep and Creativity

1517

Free Thinking - Autism, The Financial Crisis, The Fallen Woman: 22 September 15

1518

Free Thinking - Everything That You Never Knew About Indian History

1519

Free Thinking - Emotion in Art - Frederick Forsyth: 15 September 15

1520

William Kentridge and William Boyd

1521

Proms Poetry Competition - 08 September 15

1522

PROMS EXTRA - Arabian Nights - 7 Sep 15

1523

Proms Extra: David Hare's memoir 'The Blue Touch Paper' - 04 Sep 15

1524

PROMS EXTRA - 120 years of London School of Economics: 2 Sep 15

1525

Proms Extra: Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark - 31 August 15

1526

Proms Extra: The Lumiere Brothers in 1895 - 22.08.15

1527

Proms Extra: Hans Christian Andersen 20 August 15

1528

Proms Extra: The National Trust - 17.08.15

1529

Proms Extra: DH Lawrence's The Rainbow 09 August 15

1530

Proms Extra: Oscar Wilde in 1895: 3 Aug 2015

1531

Proms Extra: Memory in Performance – 2 Aug 15

1532

Proms Extra: Alice in Wonderland 30 July 15

1533

Proms Extra: Ezra Pound's 'Cathay - 29 July 15

1534

Proms Extra: Holst's The Planets Suite

1535

Proms Extra: Fiddler on the Roof

1536

Proms Extra: Beethoven and German Romantic Poetry

1537

Proms Extra: 1895 The First Proms

1538

Free Thinking - Chalke Valley History Festival: 16 July 15

1539

Free Thinking - Bryan Stevenson, Slunglow Camelot, Go Set A Watchman, Utopia at the Roundhouse: 15 July 15

1540

Free Thinking - French Thought - The prophecies of Thomas the Rhymer - French rom-com

1541

Free Thinking - Legal Aid, Law, Language and Gore Vidal v William F Buckley Jr: 8 July 15

1542

Free Thinking: Landmark Jaws: 7 July 15

1543

Free Thinking - Pather Panchali: Sunjeev Sahota; Neil Bartlett: 6 July 15

1544

Free Thinking - Museum of the Year 2015: 02 July 15

1545

The power of dance and the meaning of 'public'.

1546

Free Thinking - Worrying - Joseph Cornell - Spy Fiction - First film: 30 June 15

1547

Free Thinking - Tales of Scotland: A Nation and its Literature: 25 June 15

1548

Free Thinking - Community. The Amber Collective. Poet Claudia Rankine: 24 June 15

1549

Free Thinking - Political and Bardic Traditions in Wales: 23 June 15

1550

Free Thinking - Muriel Spark, Digital Life, Diversity in British Poetry: 18 June 15

1551

Free Thinking - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: 17 June 15

1552

Free Thinking - John Boorman; 16 June 2015

1553

Free Thinking - Othello, Hans Magnus Enzensberger

1554

Free Thinking - Saul Bellow

1555

Free Thinking - Carsten Höller, freaks and fairground

1556

Susan Abulhawa - Gregory Tate - Eugenia Cheng

1557

Free Thinking - Kate Grenville

1558

Free Thinking - Male Friendship

1559

Free Thinking - Hay Festival

1560

Free Thinking - Hay Festival: David Brooks, Azar Nafisi and Tom Holland

1561

Free Thinking - Theodore Zeldin, Mona Mona Eltahawy

1562

Free Thinking - Steve Hilton; Beowulf; The Beaux' Stratagem

1563

Free Thinking - Jospeh Stiglitz and Alain Mabanckou

1564

Free Thinking - Colm Toibin; Mammoth Cloning; Fareed Zakaria

1565

Free Thinking - High Society; Xinran; UK elections

1566

Free Thinking - Dante's Divine Comedy

1567

Free Thinking - Gut Instinct

1568

Free Thinking - Anne Enright, Christopher Hampton 07May15

1569

Free Thinking - Antony Sher

1570

Free Thinking - Sir Thomas Browne

1571

Free Thinking - Julian Barnes

1572

Free Thinking - Everyman

1573

Free Thinking - Alberto Manguel

1574

Free Thinking - English Civil War

1575

Free Thinking - Global Shakespeare

1576

Free Thinking - Caryl Phillips

1577

Free Thinking Landmark - The Tin Drum

1578

Free Thinking - Violence in Culture

1579

Free Thinking - Mexico in Words

1580

Free Thinking - Neuroscience

1581

Free Thinking - The Way We Live Now

1582

Free Thinking - Nick Broomfield

1583

Free Thinking - Patricia Duncker

1584

Free Thinking - Public and private art

1585

Free Thinking - Blade Runner

1586

Free Thinking - Cosmopolitanism/Nation State

1587

Free Thinking - Peggy Seeger

1588

Free Thinking - Secularism & Religion

1589

Free Thinking - School Report

1590

Free Thinking - Sociology in the 21 century

1591

Free Thinking - Madness/Civilisation

1592

Free Thinking - Tom McCarthy

1593

Free Thinking - Hanif Kureishi

1594

Free Thinking - Age of Earthquakes

1595

Free Thinking - Kazuo Ishiguro

1596

Free Thinking - Against Democracy

1597

Free Thinking - John Gray

1598

Free Thinking - David Cohen prize

1599

Free Thinking - Social Identity

1600

Free Thinking - Paul Foot Award

1601

Free Thinking - David Grossman

1602

Free Thinking - Buddhism

1603

Free Thinking Landmark - 1001 Nights

1604

Free Thinking - Britain's Economy

1605

Free Thinking - Karim Miske; Aatish Taseer: 11 Feb15

1606

Free Thinking - Eroticism & Utopia

1607

Free Thinking - Greece & Russia

1608

Free Thinking - Paul Muldoon, Roy Foster. Rona Munro: 4 Feb15

1609

Free Thinking - Eddie Marsan

1610

Free Thinking - Race in America

1611

Free Thinking - Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem

1612

Free Thinking - Holocaust

1613

Free Thinking - Cities & Resilience

1614

Free Thinking Churchill & Englishness 21Jan15

1615

Free Thinking - Dramatising Democracy

1616

Free Thinking - Russell T Davies

1617

R3 Arts: Free Thinking - Looking at Art

1618

Free Thinking - TS Eliot Prize

1619

Free Thinking - Mike Bartlett

1620

Free Thinking - Antonia Fraser

1621

Free Thinking - Clive James

1622

Free Thinking - Pantomime past to present

1623

Free Thinking - Protest

1624

Free Thinking - TV Drama

1625

Free Thinking - Wonder Woman

1626

Free Thinking - Mecca, Qur'an, Islam

1627

Free Thinking - British Monarchy

1628

Free Thinking - Political Theatre

1629

Free Thinking - Landmark: 2001

1630

Landmarks: Solaris

1631

Landmarks: Alien

1632

Free Thinking - Global Crisis

1633

Free Thinking - 3 American Authors

1634

Free Thinking Festival - Fear or Wonder

1635

Free Thinking Festival - Free Information

1636

Free Thinking Festival: Happy Talk

1637

Free Thinking Festival - Characters

1638

Free Thinking Festival: Antarctica

1639

Free Thinking Essay - The Spin Doctors

1640

Free Thinking Essay - Shakespeare & India

1641

Free Thinking Festival - Animals

1642

Free Thinking Essay - Women's Theatre

1643

Free Thinking - Language of Money

1644

Free Thinking Essay - Speech Before Words

1645

Free Thinking Festival - Elif Shafak

1646

Free Thinking Essay - Beastly Politics

1647

Free Thinking Festival - From Flat Caps

1648

Free Thinking Essay: Beards and Whiskers

1649

Free Thinking Essay - Disraeli the Romantic

1650

Free Thinking Festival: Burning the Facts

1651

Free Thinking Festival: The Essay

1652

Free Thinking Festival 2014: Right Thinking People

1653

Free Thinking Essay: Scold The Front Page

1654

Free Thinking Festival 2014: You Must See This

1655

Free Thinking Essay: The Human Copying Machine

1656

Free Thinking Festival 2014: Knowing Your Enemy

1657

Free Thinking Festival - Karen Armstrong

1658

Free Thinking - Akram Khan

1659

Free Thinking - Orhan Pamuk

1660

Free Thinking - Orhan Pamuk

1661

Free Thinking - Mike Leigh

1662

Free Thinking - Margaret Atwood

1663

Free Thinking - Australian writer Peter Carey

1664

Free Thinking - Marcel Proust

1665

Free Thinking - William Morris

1666

Free Thinking - The notion of Jewish identity

1667

Free Thinking - Man Booker Prize

1668

Free Thinking - Henry IV

1669

Free Thinking - Tim Minchin, David Cronenberg

1670

Free Thinking Festival - Colm Toibin

1671

Free Thinking - Matthew Barzun

1672

Free Thinking - Ai Weiwei at Blenheim

1673

Free Thinking - Neel Mukherjee

1674

Free Thinking - Thomas Ostermeier

1675

Free Thinking - Francis Fukuyama

1676

Free Thinking - Language

1677

Free Thinking - Figuring Out Abstract Art

1678

Free Thinking - Martin Amis

1679

Free Thinking - Lenny Henry

1680

Free Thinking - Culloden

1681

Proms Poetry Competition

1682

Proms Plus Literary - Robert Frost

1683

Prom Plus Literary - Philip Larkin

1684

Proms Plus Literary: Martin Amis

1685

Free Thinking 2013 - Wombs on Legs?

1686

Free Thinking 2013 - Ecstatic

1687

Free Thinking 2013 - Language Wars

1688

Free Thinking 2013 - Cutting Tradition

1689

Free Thinking 2013 - False Conception

1690

Free Thinking 2013 - What's Eating You?

1691

Prom Plus Literary - Iceland

1692

Prom Plus Literary – Wilfred Owen

1693

Free Thinking 2013 - Sugata Mitra

1694

Free Thinking 2013 - Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

1695

Proms Plus Literary - Melbourne

1696

Free Thinking 2013 - Are We at a Tipping Point? Controlling Infection and Combatting Disea

1697

Proms Plus Literary - WW1's Lost Generation

1698

PROMS PLUS LITERARY - Gavin Maxwell

1699

Proms Plus Literary - Dylan Thomas

1700

Proms Plus Literary - Tony Harrison

1701

Proms Plus Literary - Craig Raine

1702

Proms Plus Literary - Poetry from WW1

1703

Proms Plus Literary - The Taming of the Shrew

1704

Proms Plus Literary - John Tavener

1705

Proms Plus Literary - Responses to War

1706

Proms Plus Literary - Chinese Culture Today

1707

Free Thinking - Decision Making in the Money Markets

1708

Free Thinking - Politics and writing in Kenya

1709

Free Thinking - Prisons & Anthropomorphism

1710

Free Thinking - Virginia Woolf & Richard Flanagan

1711

Free Thinking - History of Pain, Richard III, Animal Rights

1712

Free Thinking - The Digital Age & Boyhood

1713

Free Thinking - Oh What a Lovely Savas

1714

Free Thinking - Yael Farber & Liberalism

1715

Free Thinking - Woods in War and Peace

1716

Free Thinking - Balancing Power in World War One

1717

Free Thinking - Barbara Kruger & Laurie Penny

1718

Free Thinking - The Thirty-Nine Steps

1719

Free Thinking - Libertarianism & Trevor Paglen

1720

Free Thinking - Sean Scully & Colour

1721

Free Thinking - Radical Bookshops

1722

Free Thinking - Eimear McBride & Nathan Filer

1723

Free Thinking - Community & The Human Figure

1724

Free Thinking - Belle & Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

1725

Free Thinking - Kenneth Clark & Arts Broadcasting

1726

Free Thinking - Tiananmen Square

1727

Free Thinking - London's Skyline & Joshua Ferris

1728

Free Thinking - Arianna Huffington & Richard Hytner

1729

Free Thinking - PJ O'Rourke, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt

1730

Free Thinking - Export of Empire & India's New Story

1731

Free Thinking - Essay Writing & Tim Winton

1732

Free Thinking - Writers and Their Notebooks

1733

Free Thinking - John Clare & Jimmy Wales

1734

Free Thinking - Nick Payne & Penny Dreadful

1735

Free Thinking - Does Europe need an East?

1736

Free Thinking - Godzilla and Hayao Miyazaki

1737

Free Thinking - Representing Cities

1738

Free Thinking - David H Hwang & Eleanor Marx

1739

Free Thinking - Charles Kingsley's Water Babies

1740

Free Thinking - Thom Gunn & Michael Cunningham

1741

Free Thinking, BBC Radiophonic Workshop

1742

Free Thinking - 18th Century Sexual Politics

1743

Free Thinking - Banksy + Chris Marker

1744

Free Thinking - Dame Janet Suzman

1745

Free Thinking - 18th Century Crime and Punishment

1746

Free Thinking - 18th Century Economics - Bernard de Mandeville

1747

Free Thinking - 18th Century Power Politics

1748

Free Thinking - 18th Century

1749

Free Thinking - Originality

1750

Free Thinking - Betty Balfour

1751

Free Thinking - Is War Good for Us?

1752

Free Thinking - Policing

1753

Free Thinking - Contemporary Curating

1754

Free Thinking - EM Forster

1755

Free Thinking - Landmarks: Seven Samurai

1756

Free Thinking - Charm

1757

Free Thinking - Childhood

1758

Free Thinking - Leadership and Military Intervention

1759

Free Thinking - Jonathan Lethem & Gary Shteyngart

1760

Free Thinking - The Brits Who Built the Modern World

1761

Free Thinking - David Grossman

1762

Free Thinking - Flora Thompson & Ruins

1763

Free Thinking - Julian Schnabel

1764

Free Thinking - Vikings

1765

Free Thinking - Spitting Image

1766

Free Thinking - Wim Wenders on Peace

1767

Free Thinking - Paul Foot Award

1768

Free Thinking - France & Algeria

1769

Free Thinking - Charlie Chaplin

1770

Free Thinking - Class in Britain

1771

Free Thinking - Stuart Hall

1772

Free Thinking - Literary Heroines

1773

Free Thinking - Atheism and Belief

1774

Free Thinking - Spike Jonze's Her

1775

Free Thinking - Hanif Kureishi

1776

Free Thinking - First World War, Empathy

1777

Free Thinking - Christine Lagarde

1778

Free Thinking - Ukraine and Russia

1779

Free Thinking - Australia

1780

Free Thinking - Feminism in Theatre

1781

Free Thinking - Derek Jarman

1782

Free Thinking: Japanese History, Chinese Democarcy

1783

Free Thinking - Suicide discussion

1784

Free Thinking - Steve McQueen

1785

Free Thinking - Girls & Constitution

1786

Free Thinking - T S Eliot prize

1787

Free Thinking - Liberal England

1788

Free Thinking - Robert Musil

1789

Free Thinking - Brink of War

1790

Night Waves - Feminism in 2013

1791

Night Waves - Tokyo Story

1792

Night Waves - Neil Tennant

1793

Night Waves - Peter O'Toole

1794

Night Waves - American Psycho

1795

Night Waves - Psychotherapy

1796

Night Waves - The Early 1960s

1797

Night Waves - Nelson Mandela

1798

Night Waves - Big Business

1799

Night Waves - Black Nativity

1800

Night Waves - Turner Prize, Candide, Letters

1801

Night Waves - Amy Tan, Strange Blooms, François Mitterrand

1802

Night Waves - Gandhi

1803

Night Waves - Orwell & Stoicism

1804

Night Waves - Tony Benn, PL Travers, Guy Debord

1805

Night Waves - Britten 100, Theatre Uncut, John F Kennedy

1806

Free Thinking 2013 - Penny Woolcock

1807

Night Waves - Doctor Who at 50

1808

Free Thinking 2013 - Whose Strife

1809

Free Thinking 2013 - Audiences

1810

Free Thinking 2013 - Therapy Versus Prayer

1811

Free Thinking 2013 - Who's Got Hold of Children's Imaginations?

1812

Free Thinking 2013 - The Countryside

1813

Free Thinking 2013 - Science and Sensibility

1814

Free Thinking - John Waters

1815

Free Thinking 2013 - Alice Hall

1816

Free Thinking 2013 - Controlling Moods and Minds

1817

Free Thinking 2013 - How on Earth

1818

Free Thinking 2013 - Power to the People

1819

Free Thinking 2013 - Sarah Peverley

1820

Free Thinking 2013 - Zamyatin's We

1821

Free Thinking 2013 - Boneless, Bloodaxe and Hairy Breeches: What Did the Vikings Ever Do f

1822

R3 Arts: Free Thinking 2013 - Michael Marmot

1823

Free Thinking 2013 - Twenty Minutes - An Interview with Neil Tennant

1824

Night Waves - The Common Reader

1825

Night Waves - Landmark: Le Grand Meaulnes

1826

Free Thinking - Michael Grigsby

1827

Free Thinking in the Summer - Derry-Londonderry

1828

Night Waves - Eric Schlosser, Richard II

1829

Night Waves - Landmark: Oh What a Lovely War

1830

Night Waves - Man Booker Prize

1831

Night Waves - Captain Phillips, David Thomson, The Events

1832

Night Waves - ZSL London Zoo Ep.3

1833

Night Waves - Verdi 200, Dayanita Singh, 2000 years of social media

1834

Night Waves - Masters of Sex

1835

Night Waves - Miliband, Slavoj Zizek, Ghosts, Melissa Benn

1836

Night Waves - Landmark: The Old Men at the Zoo

1837

Night Waves - Jung Chang & Allende

1838

Night Waves - The Clash of Civilisations?, George Grosz, Simon Heffer

1839

Night Waves - Cate Blanchett, The Ugly Renaissance

1840

Night Waves - Zaha Hadid, French Cinema Music, Cynicism

1841

Sound of Cinema - Baz Luhrmann & Craig Armstrong

1842

Sound of Cinema - Carter Burwell

1843

Sound of Cinema - James Horner

1844

Sound of Cinema - Ken Loach and George Fenton

1845

Night Waves - Loyalty & Shunga

1846

Night Waves - ZSL London Zoo

1847

Night Waves - The Innocents

1848

Night Waves - Rory Kinnear

1849

Night Waves - Margaret Atwood

1850

Night Waves - Simon Schama, Beeban Kidron, End of Human Rights

1851

Night Waves - John le Carre special

1852

Night Waves - Richard Dawkins & Tacita Dean

1853

Night Waves - Women on stage, Wilkie Collins, A.I.

1854

Night Waves - Booker Prize 2013 & Patrick Leigh Fermor

1855

Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition

1856

Proms Plus Literary - Louis MacNeice

1857

Proms Plus Literary - The Sound of Outer Space

1858

Proms Plus Literary - Billy Budd

1859

Proms Plus Literary - Music & Cinema

1860

Proms Plus Literary - Britten & Poetry

1861

Proms Plus Literary - Rudolf Nureyev

1862

Proms Plus Literary - Sylvia Plath

1863

Proms Plus Literary - Romanticism

1864

Proms Plus Literary - Michael Tippett

1865

Proms Plus Literary - Light Music

1866

Proms Plus Literary - John le Carré

1867

Proms Plus Literary - Staging Wagner

1868

Proms Plus Literary - Playing Falstaff

1869

Proms Plus Literary - Poles in Britain

1870

Proms Plus Literary - Mahler

1871

Night Waves - Boris Johnson

1872

Free Thinking in the Summer

1873

Night Waves - Egypt's democracy

1874

Night Waves - Clive James

1875

Free Thinking in the Summer - Chalke

1876

Free Thinking in the Summer - Hay

1877

Night Waves - Dystopia & Mexico

1878

Night Waves - Vali Nasr

1879

Night Waves - Claire Messud

1880

Free Thinking in the Summer

1881

Night Waves - Melanie Phillips

1882

Night Waves - Lowry

1883

Night Waves - David Edgar

1884

Night Waves - The Wasp Factory

1885

Free Thinking in the Summer

1886

Night Waves - Conor McPherson

1887

Night Waves - Neil Gaiman

1888

Night Waves - Joss Whedon

1889

Night Waves - The Amen Corner

1890

Night Waves - Turkey

1891

Night Waves - Chagall Reviewed

1892

Night Waves - Bill Viola

1893

Night Waves - China Growth

1894

Night Waves - Camp

1895

Night Waves - Suffrage Plays

1896

Night Waves - Race & Statistics

1897

Night Waves - Morality and the Law

1898

Night Waves - Childhood

1899

Night Waves - Wagner 200

1900

Night Waves - Khaled Hosseini

1901

Night Waves - James Salter

1902

Night Waves - Italian Mafia

1903

Night Waves - Jesse Norman

1904

Night Waves - Peter Brook

1905

Night Waves - The Great Gatsby

1906

Night Waves - Death

1907

Night Waves - The Hot House

1908

Night Waves - Rothko Returns to Latvia

1909

Night Waves - Peter Nichols

1910

Night Waves - Terence Stamp

1911

Night Waves - Future Warfare

1912

Night Waves - Billy Liar

1913

Night Waves - Tony Garnett

1914

Night Waves - The Octoroon

1915

Night Waves - Simon Schama

1916

Night Waves - Englishness

1917

Night Waves - Othello & Insects

1918

Night Waves - The New Common Reader

1919

Night Waves - Sheryl Sandberg

1920

Night Waves - Rick Gekoski

1921

Night Waves - Howard Brenton

1922

Night Waves - Desertion in the armed forces

1923

Night Waves: Margaret Thatcher

1924

Night Waves - Oliver Stone

1925

Night Waves - Landmark: Rijksmuseum

1926

Night Waves - Landmarks: The Making of the English Working Class

1927

Night Waves - Diarmaid Macculloch

1928

Night Waves - Nostalgia and the NHS

1929

Night Waves - History at school

1930

Night Waves - Nicholas Hytner

1931

Night Waves - Mohsin Hamid

1932

Night Waves - James Wood

1933

Night Waves - Constitutions and press regulation

1934

Night Waves - Baroque Spring

1935

Night Waves - Noam Chomsky

1936

Night Waves - Javier Marias

1937

Night Waves - Aleksandar Hemon

1938

Night Waves - Ken Loach

1939

Night Waves - John Agard

1940

Night Waves - Julia O'Faolain

1941

Night Waves - Hilary Mantel defends her comments on the Duchess 07 Mar

1942

Night Waves - Danny Boyle

1943

Night Waves - Heritage

1944

Night Waves - Sex and the Arab World

1945

Night Waves - Anarcho-Capitalists

1946

Night Waves - Mandarin Finnegans Wake

1947

Night Waves - Paul Foot Award

1948

Night Waves - Compassion

1949

Night Waves - Le Grand Meaulnes

1950

Night Waves - Ray Kurzweil

1951

Night Waves - Shlomo Sand

1952

Free Thinking 2012 - Aliens

1953

Night Waves - Andrew Soloman

1954

Night Waves - Sylvia Plath

1955

Night Waves - A Life Of Galileo 12 Feb

1956

Night Waves - Amit Chaudhuri

1957

Night Waves – William Dalrymple

1958

Night Waves - Nadeem Aslam

1959

Night Waves - Biotechnology

1960

Night Waves - Richard III's Bones

1961

Night Waves - Timbuktu and Beyond

1962

Night Waves - Shame

1963

Night Waves - China's Silent Army

1964

Night Waves - Kurt Schwitters

1965

Night Waves - The Rotten Heart of Europe

1966

Night Waves - British Social Realism in Film

1967

Night Waves - Manet & Sherlock

1968

Night Waves - Lincoln

1969

Night Waves - Landmark: Pride & Prejudice

1970

Night Waves - David Hare

1971

Night Waves - Jude Kelly

1972

Night Waves - Weekly highlights: 7

1973

Night Waves - Django Unchained

1974

Night Waves - Stanislavski

1975

Night Waves - Philosophical Investigations

1976

Night Waves - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1977

Night Waves - The Profumo Affair

1978

Free Thinking - Philippa Gregory

1979

Night Waves - Bernard Rose, Public Inquiries, TB, Mughal India

1980

Night Waves - The Girl

1981

Night Waves - Ang Lee & Angels

1982

Free Thinking 2012 - Lindsay Johns

1983

Night Waves - The Nation State

1984

Night Waves - International Review

1985

Night Waves - English landscape painting

1986

Free Thinking 2012 - Colm Tóibín

1987

Night Waves - Artificial Intelligence

1988

Night Waves - Julius Caesar

1989

Night Waves - Napoleon, Turner Prize, Georgia

1990

Free Thinking 2012 - Ian Goldin

1991

Night Waves - Napoleon Rising

1992

Night Waves - Antony Gormley

1993

Night Waves - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

1994

Free Thinking 2012 - Revolution and Democracy

1995

Free Thinking 2012 - Aliens

1996

Free Thinking 2012 - Julie Bindel

1997

Free Thinking 2012 - Hell is Other People

1998

Free Thinking 2012 - Matthew Smith

1999

Free Thinking 2012 - Mark Pagel

2000

Free Thinking 2012 - Sue-Ann Harding

2001

Free Thinking 2012 - Immigration and the Challenge to Belonging

2002

Free Thinking 2012 - Joshua Nall

2003

Free Thinking 2012 - Vicky Featherstone