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The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Queer histories
The History of Sex
EThe shadow of slavery
Early cinema: why are we obsessed with firsts?
Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture
Mocking power past and present.
New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution
Fungi: An Alien Encounter
How we see pregnancy past and present
Remembering Auschwitz
What is good listening?
Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse
Goddesses of academia
New Thinking: About Face
Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"
Simplify your life
Philosophy and Film
Could there be a private language?
Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?
The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile
The culture wars and politics now.
Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World
New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories
Speaking the right language.
The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton
Pan-Africanism
The shadow of empire and colonialism
Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security
When TV & the information superhighway were new
Resting And Rushing
The future of universities
Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
New Thinking: George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss
Are the arts saving Margate?
Why We Need New News
The Legacy of the Trojan War
New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019
Being Human: Love Stories
The Changing Image of Masculinity.
Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture
The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate
Quatermass
New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany
Halloween. Ghost Stories
Cars, Parking and Motorways
Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
What to Believe
New Thinking: First Encounters
Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate
Dictators
The Woolly Episode
2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
East Meets West
Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill
Modern Dutch Writing
The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art
Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day.
New Thinking: Places of Poetry & The Colonial Countryside Project
From The Spains to LatinX
Surveillance, Conspiracy, and Secrets from the Archives
Anxiety
Back to the '80s
Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
Tolerance, censorship and free speech.
New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability
Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft
Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving Home
Proms Plus: Letters
Proms Plus: Sacrifice
Proms Plus: Landscape
Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy
Proms Plus: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan
Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction
Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.
Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe
Proms Plus: Tragedy
Proms Plus: Swans
Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking
Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
Proms Plus: Music and Health
Proms Plus: Moon Landing
Book Parts and Difficulty
New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles
New Thinking: City Talk
Camille Paglia