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Supporting Content

• New Research

  New Thinking from UK Unis/Being Human Festival: history, books, language, philosophy.

  • New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery
  • Depicting Disability

  

• The Way We Live Now

  From moral questions to the quirks and pleasures of life.

  • John Rawls's A Theory of Justice
  • Breathe

  

• Philosophy

  Free Thinking ponders.

  • Panpsychism - Is everything conscious?
  • Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4

  

• Women in the world

  Free thinking explores women's lives and issues.

  • Why we read and the idea of the woman writer
  • Women Behaving Badly?

  

• Key films, books, TV, plays, art: 1001 Nights - 2001 A Space Odyssey, Jane Austen - Jaws

  • The Daleks
  • Hannah Arendt's exploration of totalitarianism

  

• Exploring Black History

  From C20 fiction to new insights from research into political activism + colonial history

  • The influence of the British Black Art movement
  • Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance

  

• Green Thinking

  New thinking on the environment

  • Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
  • Deep Time and the Earth

  

• Identity Discussions

  Free Thinking explores the way people define themselves

  

• Free Thinking - The Future

  Peter Singer, Cordelia Fine, Garry Kasparov, AI and Algorithmns, Tim O’Reilly.

  • AI and creativity: what makes us human?
  • Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?

  

• Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson

  • Religion and ordinary lives
  • Jewish identity in 2020

  

• Free Thinking explores Shakespeare

  Leading scholars, insights from actors and directors and new research into the Bard.

  • Shakespeare for the people
  • When Shakespeare Travelled With Me

  

• Radio 3 explores South and East Asian Culture

  From the Tale of Genji to Godzilla, Gandhi to Arundhati Roy, ink art to Confucius

  • My Neighbour Totoro
  • The Cultural Revolution

  

• Free Thinking – Prose, Poetry and Drama

  Writing from around the world: fact, fiction, key authors, classics, contemporary voices.

  • How We Read
  • Odesa Stories

  

• Art, Architecture, Photography and Museums

  From Dada to reflecting the body, Frieze Museum Director Debates to Black British art

  • Women's Art
  • Who Needs Critics ?

  

• Free Thinking on War

  Spying, peace negotiating & the power balance around the world, films, books, paintings

  • War in Fact and Fiction
  • The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021

  

• In Depth Conversations

  Teju Cole, Zadie Smith, Umberto Eco, Peter Singer, David Grossman, Edna O'Brien

  • Jordan B Peterson
  • Naomi Wolf

  

• All about film, on Radio 3

  A collection of Radio 3 programmes focussing on film.

  

• Discussions/interviews: Slavoj Zizek, Xinran, Ivan Klima, Claudia Rankine, Pankaj Mishra

  

• 10 Years of New Generation Thinkers

  From Tudor art to animal rights: insights from the AHRC & 91Èȱ¬'s scheme for academics.

  

• American Culture

  Free Thinking explores America. Guests Claudia Rankine, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Bourne

  

• Modernism

  What does it mean for books, music, architecture, philosophy, and art around the world?

  

• Harry Belafonte talks to Matthew Sweet

  The American performer and activist (1927-2023) talks politics, rebellion and containment

  

  Duration: 43:37

• 1920s and modernist culture, philosophy and history

  Futurism, Dadaism, South African writing, Indian architecture, German philosophy

  • Modernism Around the World

  

• The Arts & Ideas Podcast

  You can download all the past episodes of Radio 3's Free Thinking

  

• Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 November 1929 – 24 November 2022)

  The German poet and translator talking with Anne McElvoy in 2015

  

  Duration: 27:22

• Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

  With the death of Glenda Jackson announced here's a conversation she recorded last year

  

  Duration: 44:52

• Beryl Vertue

  In June Matthew Sweet talked with the Sherlock producer who has now died aged 90

  

  Duration: 44:00

• Antony Sher in conversation in 2015

  The actor discusses his South African childhood and playing Willy Loman, Lear + Falstaff

  

  Duration: 43:28

• 100 novels that shaped our world

  Free Thinking explores the 91Èȱ¬'s 100 novels that shaped our world.

  

• The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi

  Hear the 2020 winning historian David Abulafia in this episode

  

  Duration: 44:00

• Discussions and talks from the Free Thinking Festival 2019

  Angry politics, what we can’t say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV

  

• Click to listen to discussions, talks and music as the Free Thinking Festival 2019 Gets Emotional

  Angry politics, what we can’t say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV

  

• Find out about the emotions of the past

  Dr Chaney from the Centre for the History of the Emotions on the emotions of the past.

  • Click here to read about 7 emotions that no longer exist.

  

• Click to listen the historians shortlisted for the 2019 Wolfson History Prize

  Congratulations to 2019 winner Mary Fulbrook.

  

• The Essays will be broadcast on Radio 3 17-21 June

  • Masculinity: Episode 1 of 5 -The well-groomed Georgian

  

• CLICK to LISTEN & SEE programmes from the Free Thinking Festival 2018: The One & the Many

  We examine the fast-changing relationship between the individual & the crowd

  

• Hear the New Generation Thinkers' Essays exploring forgotten figures from history

  Recorded at the York Festival of Ideas (2018)

  

• New Generation Thinkers 2018: hear their ideas

  From the urge to fight and Mrs Noah to Uncanny objects and mountain photography...

  

• From breastfeeding to fasting, resisting tyranny to murder & dining with a nightmare...

  

• New Generation Thinkers 2017: hear their ideas

  From satire and the circus, to gangs and 'speaking truth to power'

  

• New Generation Thinkers 2016: Hear their ideas

  From aubergines to frostbite via finger-counting.

  

• The mariner’s astrolabe; faith in food; Sherlock Holmes; the phone & a cold war relic...

  

• Free Thinking Festival 2017: The Speed of Life

  

• Night Waves archive

  Listen to past editions from the extensive Night Waves archive.

  

• Stephen Reicher reveals that crowd psychology is more nuanced than people think.

  

• With global population on the rise, could having kids be your biggest moral mistake?

  

• Harry Belafonte talks to Matthew Sweet

  The American performer and activist (1927-2023) talks politics, rebellion and containment

  Duration: 43:37

• Barry Humphries talks to Matthew Sweet

  The Australian performer discusses his love of music and handling Dame Edna

  Duration: 12:53

• Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 November 1929 – 24 November 2022)

  The German poet and translator talking with Anne McElvoy in 2015

  Duration: 27:22

• Meet the New Generation Thinkers 2022

  Laurence Scott introduces new research behind these sounds 31.03.22 10pm 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3

  Duration: 0:40
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• Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz

• Matthew Sweet Explores London Through Its Archives.

• Street Furniture Design

• Superwoman: ‘Work, build and don't whine'
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