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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Susan Abulhawa, Napoleon, Eugenia Cheng on Maths

    Dr Eugenia Cheng discusses maths and playing the piano with Anne McElvoy.

  2. Kate Grenville

    Rana Mitter is joined by novelist Kate Grenville, who talks about her new book.

  3. Johanna Hamilton on 1971, Male Friendships: Steve Toltz, AD Miller, Richard Bean

    Playwright Richard Bean joins Matthew Sweet to discuss male friendships.

  4. New Generation Thinkers 2015 Launch at the Hay Festival

    Rana Mitter introduces the 2015 New Generation Thinkers.

  5. Hay Festival: David Brooks, Azar Nafisi, Tom Holland

    Rana Mitter and guests Azar Nafisi, David Brooks and Tom Holland discuss humility.

  6. Theodore Zeldin, Mona Eltahawy

    Philip Dodd is joined by scholar Theodore Zeldin and journalist Mona Eltahawy.

  7. Fulfilment, Beowulf, The Beaux' Stratagem

    Including a debate about fulfilment, actor Julian Glover and the play The Beaux' Stratagem

  8. Alain Mabanckou, Joseph Stiglitz

    With novelist Alain Mabanckou on growing up in the Republic of Congo. Plus Joseph Stiglitz

  9. Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop, Mammoth Cloning, Fareed Zakaria

    Colm Toibin on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Beth Shapiro on cloning mammoths.

  10. High Society, Xinran and China's One-Child Policy, Decisive UK Elections

    Anne McElvoy presents a review of High Society at the Old Vic. Plus Chinese writer Xinran.

  11. Landmark: Dante's The Divine Comedy

    Prue Shaw, Sean O'Brien, Nick Havely and Kevin Jackson discuss Dante's The Divine Comedy.

  12. Agnes Varda, Gut Instinct, Scientific Research into the Gut

    Matthew Sweet on the idea of 'gut instinct'. Plus the ballet Woolf Works and Agnes Varda.

  13. Anne Enright, The Economics of Psychological Therapy, Christopher Hampton

    Anne McElvoy is joined by novelist Anne Enright and playwright Christopher Hampton.

  14. Antony Sher

    Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with actor Antony Sher.

  15. Sir Thomas Browne and Adventures in Human Beings

    Matthew Sweet and guests talk about the doctors in the 17th and the 21st centuries.

  16. Julian Barnes, Bapsi Sidhwa, light-inspired poetry

    With Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes and Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa.

  17. Carol Ann Duffy's Everyman, Clive James

    Philip Dodd reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman.

  18. Alberto Manguel, Alice in Wonderland, Fashionable Victorian Writers

    Alberto Manguel talks to Matthew Sweet about curiosity and a lifetime of reading.

  19. English Civil War, Indigenous Australia

    Anne McElvoy hears how a mid-1970s play might cast light on today's political landscape.

  20. What does Global Shakespeare Mean?

    Philip Dodd asks what we understand Shakespeare to mean around the world.

  21. Caryl Phillips, Stanley Wells, Ah, Wilderness!

    Including Caryl Phillips, Shakespearean actors, South African protests and Ah, Wilderness!

  22. Landmark: The Tin Drum

    Anne McElvoy and guests discuss Gunter Grass's 1959 novel The Tin Drum.

  23. Violence in Culture

    Frances Fyfield, Richard Bessel, Peter Stanford and Mayura Deshpande join Philip Dodd.

  24. Process: Mexico in Words, Carmen Disruption, Christopher Doyle

    Matthew Sweet with Francisco Goldman, Valeria Luiselli, Simon Stephens, Christopher Doyle.

  25. Developments in Neuroscience, Krzysztof Zanussi, Peaceful Resistance

    Rana Mitter discusses new developments in neuroscience.

  26. Landmark: Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now

    Philip Dodd with a special edition devoted to Anthony Trollope's novel The Way We Live Now

  27. Sex and Numbers, Nick Broomfield, The History of the Audiobook

    Including a new sex survey, a Nick Broomfield documentary and the history of the audiobook

  28. Patricia Duncker, Adrienne Mayor on the Amazons, Harriet Walter and Guy Paul

    Patricia Duncker talks about George Eliot, and Adrienne Mayor discusses Amazonian women.

  29. Public v Private Art

    Philip Dodd considers the idea of public and private art.

  30. New Media Culture and Blade Runner

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss new media culture and the film Blade Runner.

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