Free Thinking

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Free Thinking - Muriel Spark, Digital Life, Diversity in British Poetry: 18 June 15 Jun 18, 2015

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Rana Mitter talks to Laurence Scott about living in a digital world Channel 4's Humans and explores the writing of Muriel Spark with Dr Sarah Dillon as Spark's novel The Driver's Seat is adapted by Laurie Sansom for The National Theatre of Scotland. 2015 New Generation Thinker Sandeep Parmar discusses diversity in contemporary British poetry and the shortlists for this year's Forward Prizes. Painter Chris Gollon is touring British cathedrals with an exhibition of religious art.

Free Thinking - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: 17 June 15 Jun 17, 2015

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Geoff Dyer reviews Milan Kundera's first novel in 12 years The Festival of Insignificance. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks to Philip Dodd about confronting religious violence

Free Thinking - John Boorman; 16 June 2015 Jun 16, 2015

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Director John Boorman talks to Matthew Sweet about his new film Queen and Country and its place in a career that includes Deliverance and Excalibur as well as Hope and Glory

Free Thinking - Othello, Hans Magnus Enzensberger Jun 11, 2015

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Poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger reflects on his writing, and German history, in his latest book New Selected Poems. New Generation Thinker Danielle Thom and the historian and columnist Tim Stanley, join Anne McElvoy to discuss Tate Britain’s exhibition of history painting from the eighteenth century to present day. Plus writer Lindsay Johns reviews the first night of a new RSC production of Othello staring Hugh Quarshie and Lucien Msamati.

Free Thinking - Saul Bellow Jun 10, 2015

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Martin Amis, Zachary Leader and Sarah Churchwell join Matthew Sweet to discuss Saul Bellow and his masterpiece, Herzog with readings by Kerry Shale.

Free Thinking - Carsten Höller, freaks and fairground Jun 09, 2015

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Matthew Sweet has a go on Carsten Höller's slide at the Hayward Gallery with arts critic Charlotte Mullins and discusses freaks and fairgrounds with Dr Helen Davies, Vanessa Toulmin, Director of the National Fairground Archive and performance artist Martin O'Brien

Susan Abulhawa - Gregory Tate - Eugenia Cheng Jun 04, 2015

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Anne McElvoy discusses maths and music with Mathematician Eugenia Cheng. Susan Abulhawa talks about her latest book The Blue Between Sky and Water. And, New Generation Thinker Gregory Tate shares his research into the way British writers were inspired by the figure of Napoleon.

Free Thinking - Kate Grenville Jun 03, 2015

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Rana Mitter talks to Kate Grenville, one of Australia's leading novelists, about depicting the history of white working class Australia and thinking herself into her mother’s life to write 'One Life: My Mother's Story'.

Free Thinking - Male Friendship Jun 02, 2015

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'One Man, Two Guvnors' playwright Richard Bean and novelists Steve Tolz and AD Miller join Matthew Sweet to discuss male friendships. Also filmmaker Johanna Hamilton on her new documentary - 1971, focusing on the events of March 8th that year when eight people broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania leading to embarrassing revelations for the agency.

Free Thinking - Hay Festival May 28, 2015

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BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council run a scheme to find the best young academics able to turn their research into radio. We meet some of this year's winners.

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