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Free Thinking
By BBC Radio 4
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives - looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
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Power: A User's Guide
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Common Sense
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Podcasting difficult histories
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Failure
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Language
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Christian faith, politics and culture
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Censorship, editing and self-censorship
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Friendship
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Finding my tribe
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The Good Life
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The status of Science
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Traditions, roots and local pride
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Rational and Irrational decision making
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The end of civilisations and societies
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Revenge and reconciliation
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Rocks
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Marriage
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Influencing History
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Idleness
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Travel
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Innovation
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Victorian Values
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Double Lives
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Labour, Work and Productivity
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Is Might Right?
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Working Class Creativity
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Crime and Punishment: Medieval to Modern
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Authority
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Women, Language and Experience
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Taste
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Oral Tradition and Oracy
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Humility
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Purity
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Weapons, real and symbolic
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Weapons, Real and Symbolic
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The Middle
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Technologies of the Self
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Thinking with Food
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Free Thinking at the Hay Festival: Responsibility
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Wealth
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Satire and Gulliver's Travels
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Eccentrics & Outsiders
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Eccentrics & Outsiders
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The Child's Eye View
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The Child's Eye View
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Trade and Traffic
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Trade and traffic
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The Ethics of Knowledge
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Intellectuals
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The example of St Francis
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Sign inLeading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives - looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- Podcast
- Language
- en
- Episodes
- 1536
- Format
- episodic
- Website
- www.bbc.co.uk
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