Free Thinking Episodes Episode guide
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Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Anne McElvoy looks at Russian punk protest + a version of US TV's Big Bird, Bert and Ernie
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Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns w/ Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias
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Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds
Quassim Cassam & Simon Beard with Matthew Sweet + RW Fassbinder's '70s TV sci-fi series
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Secrets, Lies & Irish History
Clair Wills, Martin Doyle, Scott McKendry & Louise Brangan discuss secrets and conflict
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Sebastian Faulks
The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel Paris Echo.
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Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn Forch茅
The walking & photographs of WG Sebald. An exhibition of money and Jewish history.
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Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
A haunting & artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale, Richard Wiseman & Matthew Sweet
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Sea Goings
Rana Mitter with Katie Paterson Julia Blackburn Charlotte Runcie and Cutty Sark
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Scottish Kingship
Medieval myth-making, the kings of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny
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Schiller's Mary Stuart; G眉nter Grass. Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves.
Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from G眉nter Grass
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Satyajit Ray's films
Tariq Ali, Sarah Jilani, Sangeeta Datta, Chandak Sengoopta discuss Ray with Rana Mitter
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Satire and Gulliver's Travels
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss satire past and present.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain.
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Sarah Perry鈥檚 Melmoth, Spookiness and Fear.
The Essex Serpent's author talks to Matthew Sweet about re-imagining the Melmoth myth.
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Sarah Perry
In a conversation with Mathew Sweet, the gothic author explores writing past and present.
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Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress
Ahead of International Women's Day Shahidha Bari hears stories linking women with war
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Sankofa and Afrofuturism
Curator Ekow Eshun, academic Sarah Jilani, sculptor Zak Ov茅 with Shahihda Bari
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Samuel Johnson's circle
Patience Agbabi's novel time travels back to eighteenth century London - so do we
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Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture
If we want the arts to be a comfort blanket, where does Beckett fit in?
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Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners
Selvon's evocative 1956 novel discussed at the British Library by Shahidha Bari & guests.
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Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty
Novelists Salman Rushdie and Lionel Shriver plus Marcus Chown and Rachel Hewitt.
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Saint John Henry Newman
Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster, Dafydd Mills Daniel on Newman's thought
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Saint John Henry Newman
Newman's thought: Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel
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Saint John Henry Newman
Newman's thought: Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel
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Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik talk to Anne McElvoy.
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Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment
Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.
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Russia and Fear.
Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past & present with Mark B Smith & Tamar Koplatadze.
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Rule Making and Rule Breaking for Women and Men.
Sheila Hancock, Neil Bartlett, Bim Adewunmi and head teacher Jonny Mitchell debate rules.
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Rude Valentines. Neil Gaiman, Translating China's Arts
Neil Gaiman talks Norse myths with Rana Mitter. And a look at the ugly side of Valentines
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Royalty, art and patronage.
Craig Brown, Afua Hirsch, Robert Jobson, Joe Moshenska, AN Wilson, Philip Dodd on royalty
