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Four Thought — 380 episodes

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1

What I've Learned from Four Thought

2

Life Without Chilli

3

Care to Care

4

Turning to Art

5

Stand Up for Irish Travellers

6

I'm not having children to save the planet

7

Life after 'life-changing'

8

I love gaming, but gaming doesn't always love me

E
9

Moral Animals

10

On Regret

11

After a Parent Dies by Suicide

12

Piracy on the Page

13

From Care to Cambridge

14

Baldness, Beauty and Me

15

From Bradford with Love

16

What I learnt from Reality TV

17

A Friendship

18

Who Tells the Story?

19

Somewhere, not Nowhere

20

Meeting Up

21

Asking the right questions about crime

22

Cities made for our mental health

23

Making Time

24

Grief: A Practical Guide

25

Valuing Care

26

Brain Matters

27

Painting a different history

28

Prison Sentence

29

The Power of Doubt

30

Leaving Your Homeland

31

Freedom Is a Must

32

And They Said We'd Be Glowing

33

Mum... again

34

Who Owns Space?

35

And His Wife

36

200 Days

37

Fear of Finance

38

What is it to Hear?

39

The Tyranny of Positivity

40

The Power of Classical Music

41

When We Were Young

42

Virtually Immortal

43

Mums in Prison

44

Climate Consultations

45

The Meaning of Statues

46

What's In a Name?

47

Defeat Don't Repeat

48

Making a Friend of Fear

49

Our Lost Food Culture

50

Being a Carer

51

Coffee with an Imam

52

Seeing Differently

53

Selfhood

54

The Empathy Equation

55

More Than a Game

56

Class of 2020

57

Reading Outside Your Comfort Zone

58

Craftivism: Gentle Protest

59

In Defence of Embarrassment

60

Writing Black British History

61

Telford, Little Yugoslavia

62

The Other Mother

63

The Craft of Surgery

64

War on Two Wheels

65

The Power of Mentoring

66

Embracing Uncertainty

67

Ending Ageism

68

Change Through Engagement

69

Making Sense of the World

70

Good and Clever

71

Depolarizing

72

Fit and Finished

73

Digital Sadness

74

A Boy Who Died

75

Living With Gods

76

Tidying Up

77

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

78

The Romance of Train Travel

79

Recovery After Rape

80

Life In Transit

81

Grief, and Starscape

82

Digging Deep

83

Working Class Women

84

Politics Fans

85

An Empathy Machine

86

The P Word

87

Life in Letters

88

A Pleasure Culture of War

89

How poker teaches decision making

90

Preserving the Home Visit

91

Taking Humour Seriously

92

The Inside of Being

93

House Buying Agony

94

Social Media Snooping

95

Facing Death Creatively

96

Identity Through Reading

97

The Last Poets

98

Play the game, lads

99

Rediscovering Human Connections

100

All The Music We'll Never Hear

101

Back to the Land

102

The Magic of the Forest

103

Going sober

104

Future First

105

Mental Health Crisis?

106

Belonging, On Hold

107

To Absent Friends

108

Thinking Differently about Difference

109

A Toast To The Bridesmaids

110

Aesthetic Labour

111

Married Life

112

Exceptional

113

Screened out?

114

Being a Muslim Dad

115

Learning Outdoors

116

The AI Ethics Challenge

117

The Invisible Entrepreneurs - Women

118

Dreams of Public Resting Spaces

119

Achieving Dreams

120

Philosophy on the Battlefield

121

Gardening, Roses and Cultural Identity

122

Am I a Gentrifier?

123

Socially Mobile?

124

Being Muslim in America

125

Truth and Reality

126

You're A Musician Too

127

How to Be Optimistic (Despite Everything)

128

The Power of Singing Together

129

The Sound of Syria

130

Get Fit, Do Good

131

Being Bereaved

132

Cash Not Card

133

Understanding Drug Addiction

134

Being Transgender

135

Intelligent Kindness in Healthcare

136

Fragmented Landscape

137

The Cyber Effect

138

Captain Trouble

139

Regulation Nation

140

Football for Good

141

A Speck of Dust

142

Capturing Moonlight

143

A Good Book

144

Building for a new life

145

The Curse of Confidence

146

Co-Art

147

Stereotypes

148

Ghost Stories

149

Digital Millennial

150

Performance Teaching

151

Listening to Street Children

152

Dealing With Dementia

153

Straight from the Root

154

A Lonely Society

155

Magazine Renaissance

156

Sensitive Souls

157

Change for the Better

158

Property Ownership

159

Supporting Mothers

160

Stories with Food

161

Other People's Stories

162

Liberating Men

163

The Art of Diary Writing

164

The Pull of the Land

165

Funny Politics

166

In Praise of Parks

167

The Social Media Poet

168

Are Pornographers Anti-Sex?

169

Father and Son

170

Being Turkish

171

Citizen Diplomacy

172

The Muslim Soldier

173

Dead White Composers

174

Spice In Prison

175

Healing Minds

176

The Meaning of North

177

Best of Four Thought: Hinge Moments in History

178

Reaching Out

179

Positively Medieval

180

The Whirlpool Economy

181

Big Charity, Big Business

182

The End of the Age of Ideas

183

Passports for a Price

184

National Pride

185

On Being Ignored

186

Democratising Education

187

Economists' Lost Literary Touch

188

A Boat of One's Own

189

D Is for Diagnosis

190

Stories of Terrorism

191

Changing Laws of War

192

Lessons in Development

193

Trust Me, I'm a Magician

194

The Best of Four Thought: Matt Haig, Tim Meek, Adjoa Andoh

195

Why Run?

196

A Scaredy-Cat's Guide to Moving Abroad

197

The Unequal Past

198

Saving the Skyline

199

Cold Calling

200

The Power of Dreams

201

Writing Myself into the Script

202

Matt Haig

203

Amanda Palmer

204

Caroline Ingraham

205

Tim Meek

206

Brian Lobel

207

Huda Jawad

208

Baraa Shiban

209

John Williams: Unexpected Joy

210

Agata Pyzik

211

Peter Bleksley

212

Jamie Bartlett

213

Amy Golden

214

Keeping It Personal

215

Art, Design and Politics

216

The Shadow of the Cold War

217

Black in America

218

Writing for a Living

219

Esther Woolfson

220

Kenneth Steven

221

Andy Kirkpatrick

222

Claire Cunningham

223

Killing the Consumer

224

Risk and Reward

225

Migration, Separation and Wales

226

High Street Revival

227

Making Drugs Today

228

A World for Children

229

Judgement at Last

230

Creative Women

231

The Trouble with Paradise

232

In Defence of Anger

233

A New Currency of Commitment

234

Americans Abroad

235

Philip North

236

Adjoa Andoh

237

Rupert Goodwins

238

Noreena Hertz

239

Jasper Fforde

240

Serena Kutchinsky

241

Karl Sharro

242

Sandra Newman

243

Jono Vernon-Powell

244

Jonathan Ree

245

Rachel Armstrong

246

SF Said

247

Mark Graham

248

Rebecca Mott

249

Philippa Perry

250

Benet Brandreth

251

Making a Home

252

Cult of Girls

253

Nothing to Lose

254

Role Modelling

255

Heaven Crawley

256

Matthew Engel

257

Emile Simpson

258

Curtis Blanc

259

Refugee Stories

260

Courage and Effect

261

Chemophobia

262

Ambivalence: For and Against

263

Putting Profit in Its Place

264

How to Remember

265

Learning from our teenage selves

266

Empires of Attention

267

Hello Cheeky

268

Drugs in Sport

269

Language Is Power

270

Mona Siddiqui

271

Danny Dorling

272

Emily Bell

273

Alan Bissett

274

Greg Votolato

275

Yasmin Hai

276

Jad Adams

277

Andrew Graystone

278

Kevin Allen

279

Jamie Tehrani

280

Judith Shapiro

281

Dick Moore

282

Steven Poole: Think for Yourself

283

Anna Woodhouse: Windows to the Soul

284

Henry Stewart: Choose Your Boss

285

Emma Byrne: Why We Swear

286

Stewart Henderson: Poetry in Politics

287

Daniela Papi: The Problem with Volunteering

288

Mat Paskins: The future in history

289

Emma Woolf: Explaining Anorexia

290

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy: Forget Impartiality

291

Ranjini Obeyesekere: Lost in Translation?

292

Anwar Akhtar: The Meaning of Pakistan

293

Sally Kettle: Does hope help?

294

Tom Armitage: The Coded World

295

Georgie Fienberg: Saying No to Pity

296

Nancy Lublin: 21st-Century Social Activism

297

Amber Dermont: The Benefits of an Unhappy Childhood

298

Sara Ziff: The Problem with Fashion

299

Maria Popova: The Architecture of Knowledge

300

Ismail Einashe: The Challenge for British Somalis

301

James Friel: In Praise of the Single Life

302

Anna Minton: Fuelling Fear with High Security

303

Ben Dyson: Understanding How Money Works

304

Rabina Khan: Redefining Multiculturalism

305

Mark Vernon: Narcissism

306

Colin Murray Parkes: Insecurity and Extremism

307

Margaret Heffernan: Whistleblowers

308

Ruchir Sharma: The Search for Economic Growth

309

Niall Iain MacDonald: Rowing the Minch

310

Ian Robertson: The Winner Effect

311

Joe Dunthorne: Lessons from the Mosh Pit

312

Katarina Skoberne: Family History Repeating

313

Ali Mangera: The Future of Shopping

314

James Bridle: Computers and Cultural Memories

315

Gillian Wheeler: Flower Design as Art

316

Naif Al-Mutawa: Art and Religion

317

Leisa Rea: The Delight of Losing

318

Alice Bell: Improving Public Understanding of Science

319

Colin Crooks: The Let-Down Generation

320

Mitu Khandaker: Knowing Ourselves Through Computer Games

321

Sir Terry Farrell: Architects are Problem Solvers

322

Kamin Mohammadi: Life in Authoritarian Regimes

323

Paddy Docherty: Poverty and Entrepreneurship

324

Kate Smurthwaite: Stop Laughing at Sexism

325

Martin Cassini: The Case Against Traffic Lights

326

Matthew Syed: Does Talent Trump Effort?

327

Clare Melford: Buddah in the Boardroom

328

June Andrews: A Revolution for Dementia Treatment

329

Jules Evans: Socrates and Psychotherapy

330

Bobby Cummines: How to Reform Criminals

331

Robin Gorna: Are We Losing the Fight Against AIDS?

332

Rob Hopkins: Sustainability and Community

333

Gordon Bridger: Re-thinking Foreign Aid

334

Bali Rai: Stop Talking About Race

335

Gerard Darby: Science and Creativity

336

Clare Allan: Liberation Through Lies

337

Judith Clegg: Pay it Forward

338

Paul Flatters: Childhood is Better Than Ever

339

Tim Smit: Britain's Not Broken

340

James Lange: YouTube and Scientific Research

341

Anthony McGowan: Seeing Ourselves as Villains

342

David Perks: Re-thinking Science in Schools

343

Angela Saini: Throwaway Technology

344

David Bainbridge: Celebrating Middle Age

345

James Daunt: In Defence of Bookshops

346

Aza Raskin: A Design Renaissance for Healthcare

347

Dreda Say Mitchell: Family, Faith and Community

348

Christie Watson: What's Worse than Death?

349

Ed Yong: The Philosophy of Bacteria

350

Kate Fox: Understanding Alcohol

351

Cindy Gallop: Embracing Zero Privacy

352

Matthew Goodwin: An Electable Far Right?

353

Russell M Davies: The Next Technological Revolution

354

Charles ffrench-Constant: Regenerating the Human Body

355

Jim Crumley: A New Dance with Wolves

356

Ed Howker: Do Young People Deserve a Bad Reputation?

357

Andrew Robinson: What Can We Learn from Geniuses?

358

Owen Hatherley: The Decline of Architecture

359

Dominic Hobson: Sport is a Zero Sum Game

360

Musa Okwonga: Life without Facebook

361

Clare Lockhart: Rethinking Aid and the Developing World

362

Hilary Cottam: Redesigning Welfare

363

Matthew Engel: An Invasion of Americanisms

364

Penny Pepper: Disability and Identity

365

Danny Kruger: The Purpose of Punishment

366

Ed Smith: Professionalism in Sport

367

Steve Jones: The Legacy of Eugenics

368

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: The Myth of the Protestant Work Ethic

369

Anne Applebaum: Repressive Regimes

370

Philip Cowley: Politicians and Pogo Sticks

371

Jake Wallis Simons: Buddha vs Buddha

372

Johann Hari: Dying for a New Phone

373

Jonathan Sumption: Don't Apologise

374

Christina Patterson: Care to be a Nurse?

375

Tom Gill: Homeless in Japan

376

Naomi Shragi: Fusion and Confusion

377

Ahdaf Soueif: The Egyptian Uprising

378

David Goldblatt: Guerilla Urbanism Comes to Town

379

Peter Hennessy: On Joining the Constitution

380

Susan Greenfield: Once Upon a Future