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Leading artists, writers, thinkers talk over the ideas shaping our lives & links between by & present and new academic inquiry. Circulate as Free Thinking Tues – Thurs 10pm on BBC Radio iii + Proms Plus events

Episodes available: indefinitely

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  • New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

    Wed 9 December 2020

    The winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020

  • The 1920s - Philosophy's Gold Historic period

    Tue 8 Dec 2020

    Matthew Sweet on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin, Carnap and other philosophical greats

  • Times of Change

    Thu 3 December 2020

    Tin can the Industrial Revolution and the stop of the Aztecs help u.s. shape a post COVID world

  • Mould-Breaking Writing

    Tue 1 Dec 2020

    Max Porter, Chloe Aridjis, Volition Harris and Xine Yao on writing the breaks the mould

  • When Shakespeare Travelled with Me

    Friday 27 November 2020

    Shakespeare from 1916 Egypt to Standard arabic pop songs.

  • Leadership & authority

    Thu 26 Nov 2020

    From Tudor courts to plantations to the Arab Spring: a Bristol Festival of Ideas Debate.

  • Pol and Pioneer

    Thu 26 Nov 2020

    Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh

  • Beastly Politics

    Wednesday 25 Nov 2020

    Is human being the just political beast?

  • Bedrooms

    Tue 24 Nov 2020

    How have our bedrooms changed from sleeping space to piece of work infinite?

  • Byron, glory and fan mail

    Tue 24 Nov 2020

    Would Byron have embraced Twitter?

  • Should biographers imitate their subjects?

    Mon 23 Nov 2020

    The perils of writing biographies of scientist JS Haldane & Indian mystic Mother Meera

  • Republic, Hong Kong and USA

    Thu xix November 2020

    Republic and dissent in Hong Kong & USA. Is confrontational politics is hither to stay?

  • Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

    Wed 18 November 2020

    Helen Mort and Blake Morrison talk mentoring. Oulipo: rules for writing in 1960s Paris.

  • New Thinking: Films and Research

    Wednesday eighteen November 2020

    Films investigating melting glaciers, to refugee camps, public bathrooms, & more.

  • New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries

    Friday 13 Nov 2020

    Would you change your nose if you could? What nearly an entire face transplant?

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

    Thu 12 November 2020

    What connects a "double elephant" sized map, an university of dissenters and Daniel Defoe?

  • The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Fence 2020

    Midweek 11 Nov 2020

    What is the function of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating state of war?

  • Charity store history, our human relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters

    Tue 10 Nov 2020

    Matthew Sweet on charity shops, 'stuff', musical typewriters and the Being Human Festival

  • Baton Wilder

    Thu 5 Nov 2020

    Novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot

  • New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture

    Midweek 4 Nov 2020

    A history of disability: court fools, political activism, and the 19th century novel.

  • State of war in fact and fiction

    Tue iii Nov 2020

    Historians and authors hash out their own work and reflections on disharmonize and violence.

  • Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic

    Thu 29 October 2020

    Shahidha Bari discuss the audition in the arts with Kwame Kwei Armah and guests

  • Individualism and Community

    Thu 29 Oct 2020

    From Enlightenment censor to New Deal USA, carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts.

  • The post-Covid urban center

    Tue 27 Oct 2020

    How the pandemic has transformed our employ and experience of urban space

  • The Writing of Aime Cesaire

    Thu 22 Oct 2020

    Cesaire's poetry, politics, and ideas on anti-colonialism and black consciousness

  • Polari Prize winners

    Wednesday 21 Oct 2020

    Pleasure & responsibility in LGBTQ+ art with the Polari Prize & photographer Sunil Gupta

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

    Tue 20 October 2020

    A haunting & artists every bit mediums - Kate Summerscale, Richard Wiseman & Matthew Sweet

  • Mail Truth & Derrida

    Thu 15 Oct 2020

    What is Derrida'south influence in the 'post-truth' historic period?

  • Poet Daljit Nagra and criminal offence writer Val McDermid

    Wed 14 October 2020

    Daljit Nagra and Val McDermid talk well-nigh their writing, as part of Durham Book Festival

  • New Thinking nigh Museums

    Tue 13 Oct 2020

    From VR Vikings & war machine museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections

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