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Free Thinking - Tony Garnett
British TV and film producer Tony Garnett is in conversation with Matthew Sweet
Free Thinking - Walter Benjamin; A cultural history of the body; Edvard Munch; Soviet Superwoman
Anne McElvoy evaluates the fiction of Walter Benjamin and the Soviet superwoman.
Free Thinking - Universities: Therapy or Learning?
Philip Dodd debates "Universities - therapy or learning?". Dr Seán Williams on Nietzsche
Free Thinking: Hands - The Anatomical Venus
Matthew Sweet discuses hands with Darian Leader plus New Generation Thinker Seb Falk.
Free Thinking - Nottingham Contemporary Art Debate: Elizabeth Price, Alice Channer.
Anne McElvoy is joined by curators and artists and an audience at Nottingham Contemporary
Free Thinking - Jane Mayer Dark Money - Money & US Politics - Flora Nwapa's Efuru - African Literature - Emma Cline The Girls
Emma Cline on cults and teenage girls, and we reread Flora Nwapa's pioneering novel Efuru
Free Thinking - Mystics and Reality: Joanna Kavenna, Dorothy Cross, Jo Dunkley, New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson.
Matthew Sweet investigates various paths to reality with artist, writer and cosmologist
Free Thinking - Archaelogy: Alexandra Sofroniew, Damian Robinson, Raimund Karl, Susan Greaney.
Rana Mitter hears about archaeology underwater at home and abroad, at the BM & Ashmoleum
Free Thinking - Peter Singer
Moral philosopher Peter Singer is in conversation with Philip Dodd
Free Thinking - Sjón, Winifred Knights. Katie Roiphe. New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson.
Icelandic writer Sjón, the career of Winifred Knights and New Generation Thinker on touch