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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