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Free Thinking: Hay Festival: Inheritance - Steve Jones, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James
Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter to debate inheritance
Free Thinking - Hay Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2016
The 10 New Generation Thinkers 2016 join Rana Mitter to discuss their research.
Free Thinking - Tale of Genji. Algorithms.
Rana Mitter rereads The Tale of Genji sometimes called the world's first novel.
Free Thinking - Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm.
Philip Dodd looks at Latin America with writers Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro.
Free Thinking - Photographers Dorothy Bohm, Wolfgang Suschitzky, Neil Libbert. Carry On Films.
The Carry On film as social history and a photography show charting the 20th century.
Free Thinking - Beauty: Dame Fiona Reynolds. The Bowes Museum. David Willetts on The State.
Anne McElvoy talks to Dame Fiona Reynolds about preserving beauty in the countryside.
Free Thinking - Landmark: In Parenthesis, by David Jones
Writer Iain Sinclair librettist Emma Jenkins composer Paul Hills art historian Iain Bell
Free Thinking - Transformations: Becoming a Goat, Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett on Victorian performer Ernest Boulton. Thomas Thwaites on becoming a goat.
Free Thinking - Germany: Neil MacGregor. A.T. Williams & Philippe Sands. Threepenny Opera. Volker Kutscher.
Anne McElvoy talks to Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher, Hadyn Gwynne.
Free Thinking - The Cultural Revolution
Frank Dik枚tter, Xiaolu and Xinran join Rana Mitter to revisit the Cultural Revolution