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    Arts & Ideas

    Arts & Ideas

    Arts & Ideas

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    866 episodes
    Language:
    English
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    Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
    Language:
    English
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    Episodes1 - 10 of 866 episodes

    Title

    Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest

    Can we still expect a meaningful job, stable income, a chance of owning property? How h...

    56 minutes
    		May 10, 2024

    Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife

    Matthew Sweet talks about the philosophy of winning and losing with Professor Lea Ypi a...

    57 minutes
    		May 04, 2024

    Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal

    Marshmallows and Kant, ideas about girl power from Mary Wollstonecraft (born April 27th...

    57 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024

    New Thinking: Exploring the local

    Women made up 10-15% of the workforce in the early days of the post office. Looking at ...

    43 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024

    Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey

    Classicist Mary Beard picks Tacitus as a figure who still has relevance if we're thinki...

    57 minutes
    		Apr 19, 2024

    Change, scrabble and cultural christianity

    "The times they are a changin" or are they? In politics people are talking about an app...

    56 minutes
    		Apr 12, 2024

    Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine

    What do you owe the state and what does it provide for us? Writing during the English c...

    56 minutes
    		Apr 05, 2024

    Unravelling plainness

    Gold sequins, silk and vibrant colour threads might not be what you expect to find in a...

    14 minutes
    		Mar 29, 2024

    Pranks

    In 1910 Virginia Woolf and a group of friends caused a stir when they were welcomed on ...

    44 minutes
    		Mar 29, 2024

    What does feminist art mean?

    Who's Holding the Baby? was the title of an exhibition organised to highlight a lack of...

    14 minutes
    		Mar 28, 2024