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Free Thinking: Oscar Nominations; T2 Trainspotting; Denial
Matthew Sweet and guests consider film making in 2017.
Free Thinking - Victorian Bodies, Citizens of Everywhere
Rana Mitter talks Victorian bodies and looks at the Citizens of Everywhere arts project.
Free Thinking - The influence of the British Black Art movement.
Artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Eddie Chambers and Harold Offeh talk to Anne McElvoy.
Free Thinking: The War of the Worlds sequel, Eimear McBride
Matthew Sweet talks to Stephen Baxter about his sequel to HG Wells's novel.
Free Thinking - Chibundu Onuzo; Nadeem Aslam. Lockwood Kipling's art.
Anne McElvoy reads novels set in Pakistan and Nigeria; plus Lockwood Kipling art teacher.
Free Thinking: La La Land and Hollywood - past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests consider Hollywood's obsession with Hollywood.
Free Thinking: Patriotism: The Union Jack
Afua Hirsch, Graham Bartram, John Bew, Ash Sarkar & Andrew Rosindell join Anne McElvoy.
Free Thinking: The Arts of Running
Artists Kai Syng Tan and Angus Farquhar join Hayden Lorimer and Vybarr Cregan-Reid.
Free Thinking: Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris.
Are public enquiries good government? Plus Matthew Parris on scorn. Anne McElvoy presents
Free Thinking - Breaking Free: Karl Kraus - Jonathan Franzen.
Philip Dodd looks at the biting satire and contemporary relevance of Austrian Karl Kraus