Arts & Ideas Podcast
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives 鈥� looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
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New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about tv depicting history
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St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Rana Mitter discusses three major theorists of religion and self-development
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Going Underground
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Shahidha Bari and guests discuss caves: from Nottingham to Borneo, in art and stories.
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Experimental writing
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Shahidha Bari, Matthew Herbert, the Goldsmith Prize winners and poet Stephen Sexton
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New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Benjamin Franklin in the Lakes, the former slave who invented light bulbs, ganzflicker
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New Thinking: Net Zero Design
Fri 18 Nov 2022
How can local communities play a role in cutting carbon emissions?
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Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Jane Smiley, Christopher Prendergast, Jayne Haynes, Marie Darrieussecq with Matthew Sweet
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George Bernard Shaw
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950)
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The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
Tue 8 Nov 2022
How video games interpret stories about war and conflict and help to train troops.
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John Knox
Thu 3 Nov 2022
A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.
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Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
Wed 2 Nov 2022
Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena joins Anne McElvoy
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Alexander the Great
Tue 1 Nov 2022
Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander
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New Thinking: Beowulf
Fri 28 Oct 2022
Short: How studying grammar and computer games can explain Old English poetry
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Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire
Wed 26 Oct 2022
The Nobel Prize winning novelist is joined by academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria
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New Thinking: Dead Languages
Wed 26 Oct 2022
John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of Ancient Pompeii
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Oliver Postgate
Fri 21 Oct 2022
Matthew Sweet and guests on the creator of children's TV classics including The Clangers.
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British Academy Book Prize 2022
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
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Romanticism Revisited
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bronte under the spotlight as a new film and exhibition open
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The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022
Wed 12 Oct 2022
Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.
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New Thinking: Accents
Wed 12 Oct 2022
From variations of Mancunian to descriptions of the Geordie voice
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Miles Davis and On The Corner
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Matthew Sweet and guests explore this genre-stretching album released on 11th Oct 1972
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How We Read
Fri 7 Oct 2022
Our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text explored by Matthew Sweet.
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Female power and influence past and present
Wed 5 Oct 2022
Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro
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My Neighbour Totoro
Tue 4 Oct 2022
Christopher Harding looks at the background and influence of Studio Ghibli's 1988 film
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John Cowper Powys
Thu 29 Sep 2022
John Gray, Iain Sinclair, Margaret Drabble and Kevan Manwaring on 'the Dorset Proust'
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Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.
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Ibsen
Mon 26 Sep 2022
New interpretations of the Norwegian dramatist's plays from Lucinda Coxon & Steve Waters.
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The Black Country - past and present
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "the Black Country" region
