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Free Thinking: Food
Matthew Sweet explores the joys of food
Free Thinking 鈥 Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett on wild swimming. Jake Arnott on Joe Orton
Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett swim in the literary and poetic power of the sea
Free Thinking 鈥 Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Heer Ranjha. Queer Icons: Sappho. Part of Gay Britannia
The Punjabi "Romeo and Juliet"; and founding the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence
Free Thinking - Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium. Part of Gay Britannia.
Shahidha Bari discusses LGBTQ in the history of philosophy + the Caine Prize winner
Free Thinking: Art in the Age of Black Power; History of Racist Ideas in US
Rana Mitter and Linton Kwesi Johnson and Ibram X Kendi
Free Thinking: Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy
Simon Heffer and Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Sussex University.
Proms Extra - Deep Time
Geologist Iain Stewart and geographer Nicholas Crane consider the concept of "Deep Time"
Proms Extra: Music and Moods
Thomas Dixon and musicologist Wiebke Thorm盲hlen discuss music, literature and emotion.
Proms Extra: Opium and Creativity in the 19th c.
Matthew Sweet, Daisy Hay, Richard Davenport-Hines at Imperial College, London
Proms Extra: Europe in Writing
Nandini Das & novelist Lawrence Norfolk discuss European writers & the idea of 鈥楨urope鈥.
Proms Extra: Sea Journeys and Voyages
Rana Mitter considers epic sea journeys in history with Barry Cunliffe & Edith Hall.
Proms Extra: Happiness
Literature & unhappy people with Will Abberley, Charlotte Mendelson & Claudia Hammond.
Proms Extra: Sentimentality
Anne McElvoy, Dr. Se谩n Williams & writer Rachel Hewitt discuss sentimentality.
Proms Extra: Ella Fitzgerald
Kevin LeGendre and Claire Martin discuss Ella Fitzgerald
Proms Extra: Cuneiform 07082017
Irving Finkel and Shahidha Bari on Mesopotamian writing, jokes and boat building specs
Proms Extra: Sleep and Insomnia
Sports sleep coach Nick Littlehales & novelist A. L. Kennedy discuss sleep & insomnia.
Proms Extra: Djinn
Elif Shafak and Shahidha Bari tell Ian McMillan why humans need the genie
Proms Extra: Unfinished Art and Literature
Ian McMillan on the appeal and arts of the Unfinished
Proms Extra: Ancient Rome
Matthew Sweet talks to Natalie Haynes about the glory that was Rome.
Proms Extra: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Rana Mitter is joined by Kathleen Burk & Joanna Cohen to discuss the Gettysburg Address.
Proms Extra: Lenin
Anne McElvoy discusses Lenin with historians Helen Rappaport and Victor Sebestyen.
Proms Extra: Alan Hollinghurst
Booker Prize winner, Alan Hollinghurst, discusses his new book, The Sparsholt Affair.
Free Thinking: Washing in public. Sir Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)
Public pools, the "steamie" and the Turkish bath are explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.
Free Thinking: Social Conservatism, Kathe Kollwitz and John Ashbery
Art and irony - Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna on the K盲the Kollwitz show in Birmingham
Free Thinking: Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.
Anne McElvoy talks to Anne Applebaum about Russian and Ukrainian history.
Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.
Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo.
Testosterone. The grey zone. Indian science.
Jahnavi Phalkey, Matt Kimberley, Richard Fortey, Adrian Owen & Cordelia Fine.
Free Thinking. Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World
The Northern Irish author of Cal talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break
Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido
Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.
Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.
Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.
Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.