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Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.


Episode Date
How we think about evil
Dec 06, 2024
Gifts and Gratitude
Nov 29, 2024
Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump
Nov 22, 2024
Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?
Nov 15, 2024
Milton and our modern world
Nov 08, 2024
Ghosts, death and ecstatic states
Nov 01, 2024
Are we all American now?
Oct 25, 2024
Insiders & Outsiders
Oct 18, 2024
Childhood and innocence
Oct 11, 2024
Reading & Empathy
Oct 04, 2024
The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute
Sep 27, 2024
Crisis & Decision
Sep 20, 2024
Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
Sep 13, 2024
Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
Sep 13, 2024
Escapism
Jun 28, 2024
The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy
Jun 21, 2024
History - the long and short of it
Jun 14, 2024
Generations - D-Day - Global Instability
Jun 07, 2024
The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies
May 31, 2024
Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?
May 25, 2024
Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.
May 21, 2024
New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers
May 16, 2024
Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest
May 10, 2024
Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife
May 04, 2024
Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal
Apr 26, 2024
New Thinking: Exploring the local
Apr 26, 2024
Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Apr 19, 2024
Change, scrabble and cultural christianity
Apr 12, 2024
Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine
Apr 05, 2024
Unravelling plainness
Mar 29, 2024
Pranks
Mar 29, 2024
What does feminist art mean?
Mar 28, 2024
New Thinking: Light and Darkness
Mar 28, 2024
Approaches to death
Mar 27, 2024
New Thinking: East West artistic connections
Mar 27, 2024
Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Mar 27, 2024
Writing Place
Mar 27, 2024
Arteries of tomorrow
Mar 26, 2024
New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment
Mar 22, 2024
The Legacy of the Laundries
Mar 22, 2024
Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Mar 22, 2024
Weird Viking Bodies
Mar 21, 2024
From algorithms to oceans
Mar 21, 2024
Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft
Mar 20, 2024
Scottish Kingship
Mar 20, 2024
Free speech, censorship and modern China
Mar 19, 2024
Call Me Mother
Mar 18, 2024
Edward Bond
Mar 15, 2024
Sleep justice and sleeplessness
Mar 13, 2024
Images of Persia
Mar 12, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
Mar 07, 2024
Muses and women's creativity
Mar 06, 2024
Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress
Mar 05, 2024
The Dutch Connection
Feb 29, 2024
Hitchhiking
Feb 28, 2024
New Thinking: Stitching Stories
Feb 27, 2024
Can - Future Days
Feb 22, 2024
Myths, ships and history
Feb 20, 2024
The Condom and V.D.
Feb 15, 2024
Chocolate
Feb 14, 2024
Chocolate
Feb 09, 2024
The Greenwich Outrage
Feb 09, 2024
Picnics
Feb 07, 2024
Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
Feb 05, 2024
On The Silver Globe
Feb 02, 2024
East West religious connections
Jan 31, 2024
Secrets, Lies & Irish History
Jan 30, 2024
Holocaust history
Jan 26, 2024
The Kyoto School
Jan 24, 2024
Heidegger & Antisemitism
Jan 23, 2024
What is normal?
Jan 19, 2024
Shakespeare's Women
Jan 17, 2024
Dust, dirt and domesticity
Jan 16, 2024
Octavia Butler's Kindred
Jan 11, 2024
Essay writing
Jan 10, 2024
Travel, pleasure and peril
Jan 03, 2024
Dickens, Disney and copyright
Dec 21, 2023
New Thinking: Carols and Convents
Dec 20, 2023
Greek myth, goddesses and art
Dec 20, 2023
Prize Winners 2023
Dec 19, 2023
Harry Belafonte
Dec 15, 2023
Margaret Cavendish
Dec 13, 2023
Narnia and CS Lewis
Dec 06, 2023
Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter
Dec 05, 2023
New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre
Dec 01, 2023
Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
Dec 01, 2023
Libraries
Nov 29, 2023
Lorca
Nov 28, 2023
AS Byatt and The Children's Book
Nov 24, 2023
Post-War Germany
Nov 22, 2023
Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners
Nov 21, 2023
New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture
Nov 17, 2023
Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Nov 16, 2023
Women, art and activism
Nov 15, 2023
Shakespeare as inspiration
Nov 08, 2023
New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project
Nov 08, 2023
New Thinking: How and why we talk
Nov 08, 2023
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023
Nov 07, 2023
New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going
Nov 06, 2023
New Thinking: Food
Nov 05, 2023
New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness
Nov 02, 2023
African identity via China and photography
Nov 02, 2023
Robert Aickman
Nov 02, 2023
Eliza Flower and non-conformist thinking
Oct 27, 2023
Sleep
Oct 24, 2023
Sankofa and Afrofuturism
Oct 23, 2023
Valis and Philip K Dick
Oct 20, 2023
Humours and The Body
Oct 18, 2023
Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork
Oct 17, 2023
New Thinking: Work and protest
Oct 13, 2023
Being Blonde
Oct 12, 2023
The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023
Oct 11, 2023
Art, Kew, a symphony and nature
Oct 10, 2023
New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness
Oct 09, 2023
Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life
Oct 05, 2023
Refuge and National Poetry Day
Oct 04, 2023
Slavic culture and myth
Oct 03, 2023
Hobbes and New Leviathans
Sep 28, 2023
Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival
Sep 26, 2023
Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski
Sep 26, 2023
Notebooks and new technology
Sep 21, 2023
Why go into space?
Sep 20, 2023
Black Atlantic
Sep 19, 2023
The Red Shoes
Sep 14, 2023
Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco
Sep 13, 2023
Wolfson Prize 2023
Sep 05, 2023
Writing and Place: The Cairngorms
Sep 04, 2023
Writing and Place: Cornwall
Aug 27, 2023
The Black Country past and present
Aug 25, 2023
Depicting AIDS in Drama
Aug 23, 2023
Landladies
Aug 23, 2023
Late works
Aug 22, 2023
Dark Places
Aug 21, 2023
ETA Hoffmann
Aug 04, 2023
My Neighbour Totoro
Aug 03, 2023
Oliver Postgate
Aug 02, 2023
The Wife of Bath
Aug 01, 2023
The Wife of Bath
Aug 01, 2023
Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Jul 31, 2023
Writing and Place: Wales
Jul 30, 2023
Writing and Place: The North-East
Jul 22, 2023
Writing and Place: Northern Ireland
Jul 17, 2023
Rock Follies
Jul 14, 2023
Oxford Philosophy
Jul 12, 2023
Childhood and play
Jul 11, 2023
South Asia: poverty and princes
Jul 06, 2023
New Thinking: women and football
Jul 06, 2023
Liverpool Biennial + art at MIF
Jul 04, 2023
A lively Tudor world
Jul 04, 2023
New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS
Jul 04, 2023
New Thinking: Children and health
Jul 03, 2023
New Thinking: health inequalities
Jul 02, 2023
New Thinking: Design and health
Jul 01, 2023
New Thinking: Writing the NHS
Jun 30, 2023
Dystopian thinking
Jun 30, 2023
Julian the Apostate
Jun 28, 2023
Boyhood to manhood
Jun 26, 2023
Gut instinct
Jun 23, 2023
Diva
Jun 21, 2023
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Jun 20, 2023
Life, art and drama in the kitchen
Jun 16, 2023
Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Jun 15, 2023
Portraits
Jun 14, 2023
Ideas about health
Jun 13, 2023
Adam Smith
Jun 08, 2023
Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
Jun 07, 2023
Michel Piccoli
Jun 06, 2023
Nature Memoirs
May 31, 2023
Europe
May 31, 2023
The Troubles in Northern Ireland
May 26, 2023
Sneezing, smells and noses
May 26, 2023
Linda Grant and Jewish history
May 25, 2023
Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright
May 24, 2023
Essex
May 19, 2023
Rocky Horror and camp
May 17, 2023
Zimbabwean writing
May 16, 2023
Agoraphobia
May 12, 2023
Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science
May 10, 2023
Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
May 08, 2023
Kingship and ceremony
May 05, 2023
Sidney Poitier
May 04, 2023
Sound, conflict and central heating
May 02, 2023
Lady Antonia Fraser
Apr 27, 2023
Queen Charlotte, fashion and music
Apr 25, 2023
New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day
Apr 20, 2023
Hilma af Klint
Apr 20, 2023
Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing
Apr 19, 2023
Galatea and Shakespeare
Apr 18, 2023
Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite
Apr 13, 2023
Land and soil politics
Apr 13, 2023
Ginger Rogers
Apr 12, 2023
Children of the Waters
Apr 11, 2023
Pirates
Apr 11, 2023
Revolutionary free speech
Apr 07, 2023
Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
Apr 06, 2023
Religion and Science
Apr 06, 2023
A family of witches
Apr 05, 2023
New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld
Apr 05, 2023
The Rossettis and Walter Pater
Apr 05, 2023
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2023
Apr 04, 2023
Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea
Apr 04, 2023
Translating Cultures
Mar 28, 2023
East Germany
Mar 28, 2023
The culture of Albania
Mar 23, 2023
New Thinking: AI, feminism, human/machines
Mar 23, 2023
Busking and Billy Waters
Mar 21, 2023
The wicked? stepmother
Mar 16, 2023
Decadent Art
Mar 15, 2023
Debt
Mar 14, 2023
New Thinking: British Sign Language
Mar 13, 2023
Making Your Voice Heard
Mar 08, 2023
Anarchism and David Graeber
Mar 07, 2023
Dom Sylvester Houédard
Mar 02, 2023
Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Mar 02, 2023
Tin cans, cutlery and sewing
Feb 28, 2023
Ghosts of Caribbean History
Feb 24, 2023
Climate change and empire building
Feb 23, 2023
Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur
Feb 21, 2023
Idrissa Ouédraogo
Feb 16, 2023
Stories of Love
Feb 14, 2023
Donkeys
Feb 09, 2023
The Heir of Redclyffe
Feb 09, 2023
Lady Macbeth
Feb 08, 2023
Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills
Feb 08, 2023
Gwendolyn Brooks
Feb 07, 2023
The mermaid-like Mélusine
Feb 03, 2023
Crossroads and TV soaps
Feb 02, 2023
The English Civil War
Jan 31, 2023
Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
Jan 26, 2023
William Stukeley
Jan 25, 2023
Audrey Hepburn
Jan 19, 2023
Higher Education for women and working class students
Jan 18, 2023
The Wife of Bath
Jan 17, 2023
New Thinking: Language Loss and revival
Jan 13, 2023
Anna Kavan
Jan 11, 2023
Phillis Wheatley
Jan 11, 2023
Katherine Mansfield & Mavis Gallant
Jan 06, 2023
Amílcar Cabral
Jan 06, 2023
Wilkie Collins & disability
Jan 05, 2023
1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions
Dec 22, 2022
1922: Leisure and Sport
Dec 22, 2022
1922: The Hollywood Bowl
Dec 22, 2022
1922:Food fads
Dec 22, 2022
1922: Reader's Digest
Dec 22, 2022
Landladies
Dec 16, 2022
Bestiaries and Beyond
Dec 14, 2022
Lists
Dec 13, 2022
Depicting AIDS in Drama
Dec 08, 2022
Trapeze acts and circus celebrities
Dec 07, 2022
New Thinking: Language, the Victorians and Us
Dec 06, 2022
How do we look at Art?
Nov 30, 2022
Soil, Chickens and City Farms
Nov 29, 2022
Star Trek
Nov 25, 2022
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment
Nov 24, 2022
Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
Nov 23, 2022
New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history
Nov 23, 2022
New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history
Nov 23, 2022
St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
Nov 22, 2022
Going Underground
Nov 22, 2022
Experimental writing
Nov 22, 2022
New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022
Nov 22, 2022
New Thinking: Net Zero Design
Nov 18, 2022
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Nov 18, 2022
George Bernard Shaw
Nov 16, 2022
Plastic and Clay
Nov 09, 2022
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
Nov 08, 2022
John Knox
Nov 03, 2022
Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
Nov 02, 2022
Alexander the Great
Nov 01, 2022
New Thinking: Beowulf
Oct 28, 2022
Ghostwatch
Oct 27, 2022
Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire
Oct 26, 2022
New Thinking: Dead Languages
Oct 26, 2022
Oliver Postgate
Oct 21, 2022
British Academy Book Prize 2022
Oct 18, 2022
Romanticism Revisited
Oct 13, 2022
The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022
Oct 12, 2022
New Thinking: Accents
Oct 12, 2022
Miles Davis and On The Corner
Oct 11, 2022
How We Read
Oct 07, 2022
Female power and influence past and present
Oct 05, 2022
My Neighbour Totoro
Oct 04, 2022
John Cowper Powys
Sep 29, 2022
Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
Sep 28, 2022
Ibsen
Sep 26, 2022
The Black Country - past and present
Sep 23, 2022
The Black Country - past and present
Sep 22, 2022
The Normans
Sep 21, 2022
Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
Sep 20, 2022
Immortality
Sep 16, 2022
The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries
Sep 14, 2022
New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?
Sep 13, 2022
1922: The Hollywood Bowl
Sep 06, 2022
1922: The Lincoln Memorial
Sep 02, 2022
Prison Break
Aug 26, 2022
Egyptian Satire
Aug 25, 2022
Pogroms and Prejudice
Aug 24, 2022
Facing Facts
Aug 23, 2022
Dam Fever and the Diaspora
Aug 22, 2022
1922: Allotments
Aug 18, 2022
1922: Nanook of the North
Aug 17, 2022
1922: Leisure and the body
Aug 17, 2022
1922: Food
Aug 16, 2022
Not Quite Jean Muir
Aug 12, 2022
Tudor Virtual Reality
Aug 11, 2022
Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care
Aug 10, 2022
Digging Deep
Aug 09, 2022
Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
Aug 09, 2022
Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Aug 05, 2022
Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Aug 03, 2022
Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
Aug 02, 2022
1922: Wimbledon
Aug 02, 2022
Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Aug 01, 2022
1922: Reader's Digest
Aug 01, 2022
Touki Bouki
Jul 26, 2022
Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Jul 25, 2022
New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth ties
Jul 25, 2022
Futurism
Jul 22, 2022
Modernism around the world
Jul 21, 2022
New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping
Jul 21, 2022
The Daleks
Jul 14, 2022
Satyajit Ray's films
Jul 14, 2022
France, music hall and history
Jul 13, 2022
Women warriors and power brokers
Jul 13, 2022
The Black Fantastic
Jul 07, 2022
Writing about money
Jul 06, 2022
New Thinking: India in the archives
Jul 06, 2022
Vampires and the Penny Dreadful
Jun 30, 2022
David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist
Jun 29, 2022
Belief, Habit & Religion
Jun 28, 2022
Late works
Jun 23, 2022
ETA Hoffmann
Jun 22, 2022
New Thinking: Waiting
Jun 22, 2022
Sheffield reinvented
Jun 21, 2022
Slow Film and Ecology
Jun 16, 2022
Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922
Jun 15, 2022
South African writing
Jun 14, 2022
John McGrath's Scottish Drama
Jun 10, 2022
Victorian streets
Jun 09, 2022
The Wolfson Prize 2022
Jun 07, 2022
New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities
Jun 07, 2022
Get Carter
Jun 02, 2022
Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy
Jun 01, 2022
Oceans and the Sea
Jun 01, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet
May 27, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art
May 27, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown
May 27, 2022
Tudor families
May 26, 2022
The Tudor Mind
May 25, 2022
Tattoos
May 19, 2022
Goddesses
May 18, 2022
Gandhi, Indian Architecture
May 18, 2022
Soil
May 17, 2022
Speaking Welsh
May 16, 2022
New Thinking: Flooding and Energy
May 16, 2022
Soho
May 13, 2022
Mental Health
May 06, 2022
Odessa Stories
May 05, 2022
Pause for Thought
May 05, 2022
Opium Tales
May 05, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: Alexander and the Persians
May 04, 2022
Windows
May 04, 2022
Kawanabe Kyōsai and Yukio Mishima
May 03, 2022
A Brazilian soprano in jazz-age Paris
May 02, 2022
John Baptist Dasalu and fighting for freedom
Apr 29, 2022
May Day rituals
Apr 29, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation
Apr 27, 2022
Rainer Maria Rilke
Apr 27, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: Walking with the ghosts of the Durham coalfield
Apr 25, 2022
Teaching and Inspiration
Apr 21, 2022
Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound
Apr 20, 2022
New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage
Apr 19, 2022
Housework
Apr 15, 2022
Ships and History
Apr 13, 2022
Grief
Apr 08, 2022
China: world politics, ink art & insomnia
Apr 06, 2022
Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment
Apr 06, 2022
New Generation Thinkers 2022
Mar 31, 2022
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap
Mar 30, 2022
Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon
Mar 29, 2022
After Dark Festival: Dark Places
Mar 25, 2022
After Dark Festival: Equinox
Mar 25, 2022
John Maynard Keynes
Mar 22, 2022
Vikings
Mar 17, 2022
The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture
Mar 16, 2022
Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring
Mar 14, 2022
Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history
Mar 14, 2022
Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns
Mar 14, 2022
Fashion Stories: In a handbag
Mar 14, 2022
Fashion Stories: Body Armour
Mar 14, 2022
Blackmail & Shame
Mar 10, 2022
New Thinking: Women’s history
Mar 09, 2022
New Thinking: Women’s history
Mar 08, 2022
Sisters
Mar 06, 2022
The Generation Gap
Mar 03, 2022
The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain
Mar 02, 2022
Climate change, nature and art
Mar 02, 2022
Perfecting The Body
Feb 24, 2022
New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets
Feb 24, 2022
Pankaj Mishra, research into Indian history
Feb 24, 2022
Artists' models and fame
Feb 23, 2022
Hitchhiking
Feb 17, 2022
China, Freud, war and sci fi
Feb 16, 2022
Stonehenge history
Feb 15, 2022
Existential Risk
Feb 10, 2022
Whale watching
Feb 09, 2022
Whale-watching
Feb 09, 2022
Diverse Classical Music II
Feb 08, 2022
Futurism
Feb 03, 2022
Modernism Around The World
Feb 02, 2022
Paper
Feb 02, 2022
How To Make A Modernist Masterpiece
Feb 01, 2022
Asta Nielsen
Jan 27, 2022
Yishai Sarid; marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
Jan 26, 2022
New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music
Jan 24, 2022
Touki Bouki
Jan 21, 2022
New Thinking: Mental Health Research
Jan 18, 2022
Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones
Jan 18, 2022
Altered States
Jan 13, 2022
Mélusine
Jan 12, 2022
Adapting Molière
Jan 11, 2022
Appeasement
Jan 06, 2022
Gloves
Jan 05, 2022
Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave
Jan 04, 2022
Fungi: An Alien Encounter
Dec 16, 2021
Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
Dec 15, 2021
Early Buddhism; Sheila Rowbotham
Dec 14, 2021
Witchcraft and Margaret Murray
Dec 09, 2021
The TV Debate
Dec 08, 2021
New Thinking: Research in Film Award Winners 2021
Dec 08, 2021
Ground-breaking history books
Dec 07, 2021
The Day of the Triffids
Dec 02, 2021
Caribbean art
Dec 01, 2021
Dürer, Rhinos and Whales
Nov 30, 2021
Toys
Nov 26, 2021
Christopher Logue's War Music
Nov 24, 2021
Romanian history and literature
Nov 23, 2021
New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration
Nov 19, 2021
Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil
Nov 19, 2021
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On
Nov 17, 2021
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
Nov 16, 2021
New Thinking: Being Human 2021
Nov 11, 2021
Green Thinking: Climate Justice
Nov 10, 2021
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021
Nov 09, 2021
Green Thinking: Future of Home
Nov 08, 2021
God's Body
Nov 05, 2021
Green Thinking: Activism and Young People
Nov 05, 2021
Green Thinking: Energy
Nov 04, 2021
Caesar, Hogarth and images of power
Nov 03, 2021
Oceans, art and pacific poetry
Nov 02, 2021
Green Thinking: Law
Nov 01, 2021
Time
Oct 29, 2021
Green Thinking: Media
Oct 28, 2021
New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music
Oct 28, 2021
Green Thinking: Trees
Oct 26, 2021
Twilight
Oct 26, 2021
Green Thinking: Sustainable Development
Oct 25, 2021
Celebrating Buchi Emecheta
Oct 23, 2021
The Language of Flowers
Oct 21, 2021
Green Thinking: History of climate summits
Oct 21, 2021
Rationality & Tradition
Oct 20, 2021
Green Thinking: Landscapes
Oct 20, 2021
New Thinking: Black British Theatre. An Afro-Cuban star
Oct 19, 2021
Green Thinking: how we see nature
Oct 15, 2021
Sugar
Oct 14, 2021
Colour
Oct 13, 2021
Frieze: Museums in the 21st century
Oct 12, 2021
Green Thinking: Health
Oct 08, 2021
Choice
Oct 07, 2021
New Thinking: Black British Theatre
Oct 06, 2021
The British Academy Book Prize 2021
Oct 06, 2021
Breakfast
Oct 05, 2021
Green Thinking: Transport
Oct 01, 2021
Order & Chaos
Sep 30, 2021
Thomas Mann
Sep 29, 2021
New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time
Sep 28, 2021
The continuing appeal of Tudor history
Sep 28, 2021
Punk
Sep 23, 2021
Green Thinking: Soil
Sep 23, 2021
Hannah Arendt's exploration of Totalitarianism
Sep 21, 2021
Belonging
Sep 16, 2021
Green Thinking: Fashion
Sep 16, 2021
Glitches
Sep 15, 2021
Dante's visions
Sep 14, 2021
Saint John Henry Newman
Jul 29, 2021
Revisit Shoes
Jul 28, 2021
Revisit The influence of the British black arts movement
Jul 27, 2021
Revisit: Tokyo Idols and Urban Life
Jul 23, 2021
Revisit Rashōmon
Jul 22, 2021
Bette Davis
Jul 20, 2021
Green Thinking: Food
Jul 20, 2021
Connecting with nature
Jul 19, 2021
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Jul 14, 2021
Green Thinking: Weather
Jul 14, 2021
Breathe
Jul 13, 2021
Green Thinking: Festivals
Jul 09, 2021
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Jul 08, 2021
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Jul 08, 2021
Epic Iran, lost cities and Proust
Jul 08, 2021
The English country house party
Jul 06, 2021
Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Jul 01, 2021
New Thinking:The Innovative Shape of Poems
Jun 30, 2021
Green Thinking: Sustainable Cities
Jun 29, 2021
Cornwall and the Coastal Gothic
Jun 29, 2021
Green Thinking: Climate Change and Heritage
Jun 25, 2021
World's Fairs and the future
Jun 24, 2021
Green Thinking: Climate Change and Literature
Jun 24, 2021
Mid Century Modern
Jun 23, 2021
Building London
Jun 22, 2021
Masks
Jun 17, 2021
Displacement
Jun 16, 2021
Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas
Jun 15, 2021
Green Thinking: Climate and Refugees
Jun 15, 2021
How anthropology helps us understand the world
Jun 11, 2021
How anthropology helps us understand the world
Jun 11, 2021
Green Thinking: Hot Money
Jun 10, 2021
Beryl Vertue
Jun 09, 2021
Women's Art
Jun 08, 2021
Green Thinking: Seascapes and Blue Gold
Jun 08, 2021
Green Thinking: Climate and Conflict
Jun 05, 2021
Green Thinking: Future of Work
Jun 04, 2021
Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?
Jun 03, 2021
Alice and Dreaming
Jun 02, 2021
New Thinking: The Botanical Past
Jun 01, 2021
Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100
May 27, 2021
Fashion, Art, and the Body
May 26, 2021
Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?
May 25, 2021
Who needs critics?
May 20, 2021
Ghosts of the Spanish civil war
May 19, 2021
The Wolfson History Prize 2021
May 18, 2021
Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings
May 13, 2021
New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data
May 12, 2021
Marlon James and Neil Gaiman
May 11, 2021
Alison Bechdel
May 06, 2021
Napoleon the gardener and art thief
May 05, 2021
Samuel Johnson's circle
May 04, 2021
Northern Ireland
Apr 29, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale
Apr 29, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop
Apr 28, 2021
Links between Judaism and Christianity
Apr 28, 2021
Epistemic Injustice
Apr 27, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers
Apr 27, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds
Apr 26, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far
Apr 25, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?
Apr 23, 2021
Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
Apr 22, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup
Apr 21, 2021
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons
Apr 21, 2021
The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress
Apr 20, 2021
Maryse Condé's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan
Apr 20, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire
Apr 19, 2021
The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins
Apr 15, 2021
Jacques Tati's Trafic
Apr 14, 2021
Octavia Butler's Kindred
Apr 13, 2021
Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Apr 08, 2021
Milton: Samson Agonistes
Apr 08, 2021
John Milton's Samson Agonistes
Apr 07, 2021
The Liverpool Biennial debate
Apr 06, 2021
Spy talk
Apr 01, 2021
From Blackface to Beyoncé
Mar 31, 2021
Writing About Faith
Mar 30, 2021
Churchill's reputation
Mar 25, 2021
Pleasure
Mar 24, 2021
Frantz Fanon
Mar 23, 2021
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Mar 19, 2021
Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
Mar 18, 2021
Syria: hope and poetry
Mar 18, 2021
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
Mar 17, 2021
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
Mar 17, 2021
Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman
Mar 16, 2021
New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?
Mar 16, 2021
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard
Mar 15, 2021
Edward Said's thinking
Mar 12, 2021
The Vietnam Paris connection
Mar 11, 2021
New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk
Mar 09, 2021
Speech, Voice, Accents and AI Free Thinking
Mar 04, 2021
Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith
Mar 03, 2021
New Thinking: Girls
Mar 02, 2021
Saint John Henry Newman
Mar 01, 2021
Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4
Feb 25, 2021
Humans, Animals, Ecologies
Feb 24, 2021
Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien & Violette Leduc
Feb 19, 2021
Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history
Feb 17, 2021
Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies
Feb 16, 2021
Coins, the magic money tree and a cashless world
Feb 12, 2021
Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)
Feb 10, 2021
New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums
Feb 09, 2021
Class and social mobility
Feb 04, 2021
Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman
Feb 03, 2021
New Thinking: Eco-Criticism
Feb 02, 2021
What Makes a Good Lecture?
Jan 30, 2021
Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France
Jan 27, 2021
Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan
Jan 26, 2021
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice
Jan 21, 2021
James Baldwin and race in USA
Jan 20, 2021
Harlots & 18th Century Working Women
Jan 19, 2021
Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil
Jan 14, 2021
New Thinking: Women and Slavery
Jan 13, 2021
Autism, film and patterns
Jan 12, 2021
New Thinking: Aphra Behn
Jan 08, 2021
Dostoevsky
Jan 06, 2021
Mildred Pierce
Jan 05, 2021
Marlene Dietrich
Dec 17, 2020
Winter Light
Dec 16, 2020
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Dec 15, 2020
Ancient wisdom & remote living
Dec 10, 2020
New Thinking: Hey Presto!
Dec 09, 2020
New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health
Dec 09, 2020
The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age
Dec 08, 2020
Times of Change
Dec 03, 2020
Mould-Breaking Writing
Dec 01, 2020
When Shakespeare Travelled with Me
Nov 27, 2020
Leadership & authority
Nov 26, 2020
Politician and Pioneer
Nov 26, 2020
Beastly Politics
Nov 25, 2020
Bedrooms
Nov 24, 2020
Byron, celebrity and fan mail
Nov 24, 2020
Should biographers imitate their subjects?
Nov 23, 2020
Democracy, Hong Kong and USA
Nov 19, 2020
Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo
Nov 18, 2020
New Thinking: Films and Research
Nov 18, 2020
New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries
Nov 13, 2020
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
Nov 12, 2020
The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
Nov 11, 2020
Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
Nov 10, 2020
Billy Wilder
Nov 05, 2020
New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture
Nov 04, 2020
War in fact and fiction
Nov 03, 2020
Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
Oct 29, 2020
Individualism and Community
Oct 29, 2020
The post-Covid city
Oct 27, 2020
The Writing of Aime Cesaire
Oct 22, 2020
Polari Prize winners
Oct 21, 2020
Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
Oct 20, 2020
Post Truth & Derrida
Oct 15, 2020
Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid
Oct 14, 2020
New Thinking about Museums
Oct 13, 2020
The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
Oct 08, 2020
Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
Oct 06, 2020
New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois
Oct 02, 2020
Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Oct 01, 2020
Cows in culture and soil
Sep 30, 2020
Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020
Sep 29, 2020
Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures
Sep 24, 2020
New Thinking: The impact of being multilingual
Sep 23, 2020
Get Carter
Sep 22, 2020
Family ties and reshaping history
Sep 17, 2020
New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History
Sep 16, 2020
Piranesi and disturbing archecture
Sep 15, 2020
The Radiophonic Workshop
Aug 06, 2020
Greek classics and the sea plus a pair of novels byTolstoy and Dostoevsky
Jul 29, 2020
Wole Soyinka's writing
Jul 29, 2020
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
Jul 28, 2020
Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland
Jul 23, 2020
Dada and the power of Nonsense
Jul 22, 2020
Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains
Jul 22, 2020
New Thinking:Nature Writing
Jul 15, 2020
Magic
Jul 14, 2020
How do we build a new masculinity ?
Jul 13, 2020
Egyptian Satire
Jul 09, 2020
Pogroms and prejudice
Jul 09, 2020
The consolation of philosophy and stories
Jul 09, 2020
What does a black history curriculum look like?
Jul 08, 2020
Prison Break
Jul 03, 2020
Facing Facts
Jul 03, 2020
Gambling, good leadership and economic history
Jul 03, 2020
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Jul 01, 2020
Dam Fever and The Diaspora
Jun 28, 2020
Not Quite Jean Muir
Jun 28, 2020
Digging Deep
Jun 28, 2020
Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
Jun 28, 2020
Coming out Crip and Acts of Care
Jun 28, 2020
Tudor Virtual Reality
Jun 28, 2020
Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam
Jun 26, 2020
Revisit: Arundhati Roy
Jun 25, 2020
Rethinking the Curriculum
Jun 22, 2020
Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology
Jun 22, 2020
Queer Bloomsbury and stillness in art and dance
Jun 17, 2020
Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species
Jun 16, 2020
New Thinking: Refugees
Jun 16, 2020
The future of theatre debate
Jun 12, 2020
Failure and female friendship
Jun 10, 2020
Dickens
Jun 09, 2020
New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery
Jun 07, 2020
Robin Askwith
Jun 03, 2020
Revisit: Tokyo Story
Jun 02, 2020
Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
May 28, 2020
Sarah Perry
May 27, 2020
Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken
May 21, 2020
Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden
May 21, 2020
Kindness
May 20, 2020
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi
May 18, 2020
Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion
May 14, 2020
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton
May 13, 2020
WW II radio propaganda & French relations
May 06, 2020
Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia
May 04, 2020
Revisit: Mark Haddon
Apr 29, 2020
Cary Grant
Apr 29, 2020
Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Apr 22, 2020
Alternative Realities
Apr 21, 2020
Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf
Apr 16, 2020
Deep Time and the Earth
Apr 09, 2020
Belonging
Apr 08, 2020
New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives
Apr 07, 2020
Revisit: What does game playing teach us
Apr 04, 2020
Knees
Apr 02, 2020
New Thinking: Wordsworth
Mar 31, 2020
The Declaration Of Arbroath
Mar 25, 2020
How do we build a new masculinity ?
Mar 24, 2020
What's so great about EM Forster
Mar 23, 2020
Future Thinking
Mar 20, 2020
Contagion and Viruses
Mar 19, 2020
Shoes
Mar 19, 2020
New Thinking: Science Fiction
Mar 18, 2020
Does Growth Matter?
Mar 17, 2020
Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture
Mar 12, 2020
Advertising & Artemisia
Mar 11, 2020
Fighting Women
Mar 10, 2020
Jewish Identity in 2020
Mar 06, 2020
Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Mar 05, 2020
Frank Ramsey
Mar 05, 2020
New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality
Mar 05, 2020
Anne Enright + the value of gossip
Mar 04, 2020
Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
Feb 28, 2020
Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Feb 28, 2020
Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Feb 28, 2020
Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Feb 28, 2020
How archictecture shapes society
Feb 27, 2020
New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people
Feb 27, 2020
Japan Now 2020
Feb 27, 2020
Genes, racism, ageing and evidence
Feb 25, 2020
African Empire Stories
Feb 20, 2020
The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Feb 19, 2020
Queer histories
Feb 13, 2020
The History of Sex
Feb 13, 2020
The shadow of slavery
Feb 12, 2020
Early cinema: why are we obsessed with firsts?
Feb 07, 2020
Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture
Feb 05, 2020
Mocking power past and present.
Feb 05, 2020
New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution
Jan 31, 2020
Fungi: An Alien Encounter
Jan 30, 2020
How we see pregnancy past and present
Jan 30, 2020
Remembering Auschwitz
Jan 28, 2020
What is good listening?
Jan 24, 2020
Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse
Jan 22, 2020
Goddesses of academia
Jan 21, 2020
New Thinking: About Face
Jan 17, 2020
Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
Jan 16, 2020
Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"
Jan 16, 2020
Simplify your life
Jan 15, 2020
Philosophy and Film
Jan 10, 2020
Could there be a private language?
Jan 09, 2020
Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?
Jan 09, 2020
The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile
Dec 19, 2019
The culture wars and politics now.
Dec 18, 2019
Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World
Dec 18, 2019
New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories
Dec 13, 2019
Speaking the right language.
Dec 13, 2019
The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton
Dec 12, 2019
Pan-Africanism
Dec 10, 2019
The shadow of empire and colonialism
Dec 05, 2019
Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security
Dec 04, 2019
When TV & the information superhighway were new
Dec 03, 2019
Resting And Rushing
Nov 28, 2019
The future of universities
Nov 27, 2019
Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
Nov 26, 2019
New Thinking: George Eliot
Nov 22, 2019
The Mill on the Floss
Nov 22, 2019
Are the arts saving Margate?
Nov 22, 2019
Why We Need New News
Nov 22, 2019
The Legacy of the Trojan War
Nov 21, 2019
New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019
Nov 16, 2019
Being Human: Love Stories
Nov 14, 2019
The Changing Image of Masculinity.
Nov 14, 2019
Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture
Nov 12, 2019
The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate
Nov 07, 2019
Quatermass
Nov 05, 2019
New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany
Nov 01, 2019
Halloween. Ghost Stories
Nov 01, 2019
Cars, Parking and Motorways
Oct 30, 2019
Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Oct 30, 2019
Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
Oct 24, 2019
What to Believe
Oct 23, 2019
New Thinking: First Encounters
Oct 23, 2019
Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate
Oct 22, 2019
Dictators
Oct 18, 2019
The Woolly Episode
Oct 17, 2019
2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
Oct 16, 2019
East Meets West
Oct 10, 2019
Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill
Oct 10, 2019
Modern Dutch Writing
Oct 09, 2019
The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art
Oct 08, 2019
Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day.
Oct 03, 2019
New Thinking: Places of Poetry & The Colonial Countryside Project
Oct 03, 2019
From The Spains to LatinX
Oct 02, 2019
Surveillance, Conspiracy, and Secrets from the Archives
Sep 29, 2019
Anxiety
Sep 26, 2019
Back to the '80s
Sep 20, 2019
Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
Sep 18, 2019
Tolerance, censorship and free speech.
Sep 17, 2019
New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability
Sep 16, 2019
Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft
Sep 13, 2019
Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving Home
Sep 12, 2019
Proms Plus: Letters
Sep 11, 2019
Proms Plus: Sacrifice
Sep 02, 2019
Proms Plus: Landscape
Aug 27, 2019
Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy
Aug 22, 2019
Proms Plus: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Aug 21, 2019
Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
Aug 21, 2019
Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
Aug 21, 2019
Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan
Aug 18, 2019
Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
Aug 16, 2019
Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
Aug 16, 2019
Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction
Aug 15, 2019
Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.
Aug 14, 2019
Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
Aug 13, 2019
Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Aug 12, 2019
Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe
Aug 08, 2019
Proms Plus: Tragedy
Aug 08, 2019
Proms Plus: Swans
Aug 05, 2019
Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking
Aug 05, 2019
Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
Aug 04, 2019
Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
Jul 26, 2019
Proms Plus: Music and Health
Jul 24, 2019
Proms Plus: Moon Landing
Jul 22, 2019
Book Parts and Difficulty
Jul 19, 2019
New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
Jul 17, 2019
New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations
Jul 17, 2019
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
Jul 17, 2019
New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles
Jul 17, 2019
New Thinking: City Talk
Jul 17, 2019
Camille Paglia
Jul 16, 2019
An insider's view of war
Jul 11, 2019
Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.
Jul 10, 2019
Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
Jul 10, 2019
Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.
Jul 04, 2019
Russia and Fear.
Jul 04, 2019
Free Thinking: Language and Belonging
Jul 03, 2019
Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.
Jun 28, 2019
Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming
Jun 26, 2019
Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak
Jun 26, 2019
The Hard Man in the Call-Centre
Jun 21, 2019
'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The history of the three-piece suit
Jun 20, 2019
James Ellroy
Jun 20, 2019
Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali
Jun 20, 2019
Comrades in Arms
Jun 19, 2019
Landmark: Finnegans Wake
Jun 19, 2019
Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
Jun 18, 2019
The well-groomed Georgian
Jun 17, 2019
Afropean Identities. Filming the Arab Spring.
Jun 14, 2019
Michael Rakowitz, Archaeology Now, Epic Journeys and Facial Disfigurement
Jun 12, 2019
Breaking Down the Barriers
Jun 11, 2019
Orwell's 1984. A Landmark of Culture.
Jun 06, 2019
Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?
Jun 05, 2019
AI and creativity: what makes us human?
Jun 04, 2019
Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay.
May 30, 2019
Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
May 29, 2019
Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy
May 22, 2019
Censorship and sex
May 22, 2019
Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn Forché
May 16, 2019
Rivers, different cultures, different values
May 15, 2019
Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration
May 15, 2019
Rivers and geopolitics
May 14, 2019
Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
May 10, 2019
Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.
May 08, 2019
Wolfson History Prize Discussion.
May 08, 2019
Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model
May 07, 2019
Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize
May 02, 2019
Landmark: Audre Lorde
Apr 30, 2019
Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers
Apr 25, 2019
20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World.
Apr 24, 2019
Does My Pet Love Me?
Apr 23, 2019
The New Age of Sentimentality
Apr 18, 2019
Why We Need Weepies
Apr 17, 2019
The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion
Apr 17, 2019
Should Doctors Cry?
Apr 16, 2019
Where Do Human Rights Come From?
Apr 12, 2019
The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
Apr 11, 2019
The Unsaid
Apr 11, 2019
Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
Apr 10, 2019
The Way We Used To Feel
Apr 10, 2019
Who Wrote Animal Farm?
Apr 09, 2019
How They Manipulate Our Emotions
Apr 09, 2019
Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival
Apr 09, 2019
The Emotion of Now
Apr 08, 2019
Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century
Apr 08, 2019
Healthy Eating Edwardian Style
Apr 05, 2019
'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get?
Apr 05, 2019
Shopping Around the Baby Market
Apr 04, 2019
Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
Apr 03, 2019
Being Diplomatic
Apr 03, 2019
The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
Apr 02, 2019
Anxiety and the Teenage Brain
Apr 02, 2019
A city is not a park but should it be?
Apr 02, 2019
Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson
Apr 01, 2019
Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture
Apr 01, 2019
Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
Mar 27, 2019
Betrayal
Mar 26, 2019
Childhood faces and fears
Mar 21, 2019
Empathy
Mar 20, 2019
George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri
Mar 19, 2019
Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women
Mar 14, 2019
The Council Estate in Culture
Mar 13, 2019
Is British Culture Getting Wierder?
Mar 12, 2019
Women, relationships and the law past and present
Mar 07, 2019
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Mar 06, 2019
David Bailey, Don McCullin
Mar 05, 2019
The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.
Mar 04, 2019
Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
Feb 28, 2019
Jack the Ripper and women as victims
Feb 26, 2019
Images of Japan
Feb 21, 2019
Authority in the Era of Populism
Feb 21, 2019
The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature
Feb 20, 2019
Patti LuPone
Feb 19, 2019
Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
Feb 15, 2019
Love
Feb 14, 2019
Africa Babel China
Feb 13, 2019
Spike Lee
Feb 12, 2019
Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds
Feb 07, 2019
Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.
Feb 06, 2019
Street Culture, Protests, Food.
Feb 05, 2019
Sea Goings
Jan 31, 2019
Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Jan 30, 2019
Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.
Jan 29, 2019
Consent
Jan 24, 2019
Slow Looking at Art
Jan 23, 2019
Oscars 2019
Jan 22, 2019
Icons.
Jan 17, 2019
Tourism past and present
Jan 16, 2019
Walls
Jan 15, 2019
Boredom
Jan 10, 2019
Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette
Jan 09, 2019
Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box
Jan 08, 2019
The Digital Humanities
Dec 21, 2018
Landmark: Watership Down
Dec 20, 2018
What does game playing teach us?
Dec 19, 2018
Trees of Knowledge
Dec 18, 2018
Ice
Dec 13, 2018
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Dec 12, 2018
Writing and Frankness
Dec 11, 2018
Are we being manipulated?
Dec 06, 2018
Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
Dec 05, 2018
Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
Dec 05, 2018
Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.
Nov 29, 2018
Slavery Stories
Nov 28, 2018
Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books
Nov 27, 2018
Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.
Nov 23, 2018
The Left Behind
Nov 21, 2018
What kind of history should we write?
Nov 21, 2018
Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.
Nov 15, 2018
Death rituals
Nov 14, 2018
Lost Words and Language
Nov 14, 2018
Why are we silent when conflict is loud?
Nov 08, 2018
Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War
Nov 08, 2018
Landmark: Journey to the End of the Night
Nov 07, 2018
Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.
Nov 06, 2018
Re-thinking the Human Condition
Nov 01, 2018
Religious divisions, puppet shows and politics.
Oct 31, 2018
The Memes that Make Us Laugh
Oct 30, 2018
From the Gallows to the Holy Land: Medieval Pilgrimage
Oct 26, 2018
The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction.
Oct 25, 2018
Mike Leigh
Oct 24, 2018
Playing God
Oct 23, 2018
Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands
Oct 18, 2018
Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot.
Oct 18, 2018
Re-writing C20th British Philosophy
Oct 16, 2018
Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires
Oct 16, 2018
Discrimination
Oct 11, 2018
Greed and Landownership Past, Present, Future
Oct 11, 2018
Drugs and Consciousness
Oct 10, 2018
A Feminist Take on Medieval History
Oct 06, 2018
The Frieze Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
Oct 04, 2018
Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, Spookiness and Fear.
Oct 03, 2018
Gandhi's power, portable citizenship & Indian writing - China's missing film star
Oct 02, 2018
Loss, Grief and Anger
Sep 27, 2018
Slavoj Žižek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Sep 26, 2018
The Goodies
Sep 25, 2018
What Nietzsche teaches us
Sep 20, 2018
What Camus and Claude Lévi-Strauss teach us
Sep 19, 2018
What St Augustine teaches us
Sep 18, 2018
Proms Plus: Retelling Troy
Sep 18, 2018
Sebastian Faulks
Sep 13, 2018
Women Finding a Voice
Sep 12, 2018
Design
Sep 11, 2018
Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature
Sep 03, 2018
Proms Plus: Northern Lights
Aug 29, 2018
Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety
Aug 29, 2018
Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture
Aug 23, 2018
Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES
Aug 21, 2018
Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales
Aug 20, 2018
Proms Plus: Ecstatic States
Aug 14, 2018
Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania
Aug 12, 2018
Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos
Aug 10, 2018
Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry
Aug 06, 2018
Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland
Aug 06, 2018
Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction
Jul 31, 2018
Proms Plus: Mountains
Jul 30, 2018
Proms Plus: Funny Fiction
Jul 28, 2018
Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined
Jul 27, 2018
Proms Plus: Birds and Humans
Jul 27, 2018
Proms Plus: The Wanderer
Jul 25, 2018
Proms Plus – exploring the narrative voice in literature
Jul 21, 2018
Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe
Jul 17, 2018
Howard Jacobson
Jul 12, 2018
Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard
Jul 12, 2018
Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.
Jul 10, 2018
From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living
Jul 06, 2018
Renzo Piano
Jul 04, 2018
What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.
Jul 04, 2018
Fun Home, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter
Jun 28, 2018
The body, past and present
Jun 28, 2018
The Working Lunch and Food in History
Jun 27, 2018
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman’s Rights
Jun 22, 2018
John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet
Jun 22, 2018
Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
Jun 22, 2018
The Forgotten German Princess
Jun 22, 2018
Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler
Jun 22, 2018
Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas
Jun 21, 2018
Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz
Jun 21, 2018
The Word For World Is Forest
Jun 19, 2018
The Piano and Love
Jun 14, 2018
Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'
Jun 13, 2018
Mark Lilla. Owen Hatherley. Gulzaar Barn.
Jun 12, 2018
The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President
Jun 07, 2018
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley
Jun 07, 2018
The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning
Jun 06, 2018
American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.
Jun 01, 2018
Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
May 30, 2018
Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas
May 29, 2018
Tacita Dean; Mountains, John Tyndall
May 24, 2018
The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate
May 23, 2018
In Conversation: Philip Roth (1933 - 2018)
May 23, 2018
Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch
May 22, 2018
Jordan B Peterson
May 17, 2018
Designing the future
May 17, 2018
John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism
May 16, 2018
What is Speech?
May 10, 2018
Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan
May 09, 2018
Out of Control?
May 08, 2018
Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars
May 04, 2018
Marxism
May 02, 2018
America: Inequality & Race
May 01, 2018
Tokyo Idols and Urban life.
Apr 26, 2018
Landmark: Rashōmon
Apr 25, 2018
Japan and Nature
Apr 25, 2018
Learning from Sweden
Apr 19, 2018
Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer
Apr 18, 2018
The Politics of Fashion and Drag
Apr 18, 2018
Marilynne Robinson
Apr 12, 2018
Macbeth and Things Fall Apart
Apr 11, 2018
British New Wave Films of the '60s
Apr 10, 2018
Death Comes to Us All
Apr 05, 2018
What Do We Mean by "Working Class Writing"?
Apr 04, 2018
Introducing the New Generation Thinkers 2018
Apr 03, 2018
Building Bridges and Other Megastructures
Mar 29, 2018
#Speaking Up
Mar 28, 2018
Mass Hysterics
Mar 27, 2018
Can There Be Multiple Versions of Me?
Mar 26, 2018
Free Thinking Essay: What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?
Mar 23, 2018
Free Thinking Essay: Kids With Guns
Mar 22, 2018
Rethinking Civilisations
Mar 22, 2018
Free Thinking Essay: Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present
Mar 21, 2018
Gangs, the Usual Suspects
Mar 21, 2018
Power to the People?
Mar 21, 2018
Free Thinking Essay: When Shakespeare Travelled With Me
Mar 20, 2018
Are We Afraid of Being Alone?
Mar 20, 2018
Free Thinking Essay: A War of Words
Mar 19, 2018
Free Thinking Essay: Doing Nothing
Mar 16, 2018
Has Social Media Cracked the Code to the Crowd?
Mar 15, 2018
Free Thinking Essay: Educating Ida
Mar 15, 2018
Podcast: There Is No I in Team
Mar 15, 2018
Free Thinking Essay: Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?
Mar 15, 2018
Free Thinking Essay:Art for Health's Sake
Mar 14, 2018
The Dance of Nature
Mar 14, 2018
Free Thinking Essay: Welling Up: Women & Water in the Middle Ages
Mar 13, 2018
The Population Bomb
Mar 12, 2018
The Free Thinking Lecture: Linda Yueh on Globalisation
Mar 09, 2018
New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement.
Mar 08, 2018
The Golden Notebook
Mar 07, 2018
A Sentimental Journey
Mar 01, 2018
What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs
Feb 28, 2018
The Joy of Bureaucracy
Feb 22, 2018
Steven Pinker on Progress
Feb 22, 2018
Napoleon in Fact & Fiction
Feb 21, 2018
Reflecting Rural Life
Feb 15, 2018
Free Thinking: Mark Dion; Colour, Insects, Virginia Woolf
Feb 14, 2018
How Big Should the State Be?
Feb 14, 2018
Michael Ignatieff and Central Europe
Feb 13, 2018
Tariq Ali
Feb 08, 2018
Celebrating Buchi Emecheta
Feb 08, 2018
Trade, Davos, Ocean travel and Mermaids
Feb 02, 2018
The Working Class in Culture
Feb 01, 2018
Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries