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Free Thinking 2008
Matthew Sweet presents Free Thinking 2008 debates, interviews, dramas and lectures.
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The Free Thinking Lecture - Will Self
Author and columnist Will Self gives the opening lecture for Radio 3's festival of ideas.
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28/10/2008
With Tim Robinson on his books about life in Connemara, Ireland, plus Love's Labour's Lost
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27/10/2008
Bidisha reviews Oliver Stone's film W and debates the idea that the brain is overestimated
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23/10/2008
Matthew Sweet and a panel discuss ideas currently being debated in the field of economics.
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22/10/2008
Anne McElvoy talks to film director Terence Davies about his film Of Time and the City.
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21/10/2008
Presented by Rana Mitter. Including a biography of William Hazlitt.
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20/10/2008
Matthew Sweet discusses the film Quiet Chaos, starring actor-director Nanni Moretti.
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16/10/2008
Bidisha gives the verdict on the Coen brothers film Burn after Reading.
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Night Waves
Philip Dodd talks to historian David Starkey, who discusses his biography of Henry VIII.
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14/10/2008
Rana Mitter talks to Richard Evans about his distinguished career as a historian.
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13/10/2008
Matthew Sweet introduces art historian Evelyn Welch plus a discussion on anti-semitism.
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09/10/2008
Anne McElvoy talks to Simon Schama about his new book The American Future: A History.
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08/10/2008
Philip Dodd talks to Stephen Fry about his his journey across America in a taxi.
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07/10/2008
Matthew Sweet discusses the winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics and Medicine.
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06/10/2008
Bidisha is joined by artist Grayson Perry and American satirist Barbara Ehrenreich.
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02/10/2008
Isabel Hilton and guests explore the iconic medical text, Gray's Anatomy.
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01/10/2008
Philip Dodd talks to Tim Robinson about his book on life in Connemara, Ireland.
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30/09/2008
Rana Mitter talks to Elie Wiesel, author of the famous holocaust memoir, Nigh.
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29/09/2008
Matthew Sweet reviews the film version of Evelyn Waugh's classic Brideshead Revisited.
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25/09/2008
Philip Dodd looks at the economic and cultural legacy of the Ford Model T car.
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24/09/2008
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss former Czech president Vaclav Havel's new play Leaving.
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23/09/2008
Bidisha talks to American writer Marilynne Robinson about her new book 成人快手.
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22/09/2008
Isabel Hilton talks to veteran foreign correspondent Ann Leslie about her autobiography.
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18/09/2008
Philip Dodd talks to novelist Howard Jacobson about his new book The Act of Love.
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17/09/2008
Matthew Sweet speaks to famous novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux about his new book.
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16/09/2008
Rana Mitter talks to historian Tom Holland about his new book, Millenium.
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15/09/2008
Philip Dodd talks to Philip Roth, one of America's most celebrated living writers.
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17/07/2008
Matthew Sweet investigates stories that feature the last surviving person on earth.
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16/07/2008
With writer Marshall Berman, a look at shopping malls and Andrew Sean Greer's latest book.