• The Radiophonic Workshop
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• Greek classics and the sea plus a pair of novels byTolstoy and Dostoevsky
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• Wole Soyinka's writing
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• Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
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• Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland
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• Dada and the power of Nonsense
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• Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains
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• New Thinking:Nature Writing
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• Magic
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• How do we build a new masculinity ?
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• Egyptian Satire
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• Pogroms and prejudice
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• The consolation of philosophy and stories
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• What does a black history curriculum look like?
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• Prison Break
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• Facing Facts
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• Gambling, good leadership and economic history
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• Frank Cottrell-Boyce
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• Dam Fever and The Diaspora
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• Not Quite Jean Muir
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• Digging Deep
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• Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
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• Coming out Crip and Acts of Care
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• Tudor Virtual Reality
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• Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam
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• Revisit: Arundhati Roy
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• Rethinking the Curriculum
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• Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology
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• Queer Bloomsbury and stillness in art and dance
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• Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species
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• New Thinking: Refugees
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• The future of theatre debate
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• Failure and female friendship
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• Dickens
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• New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery
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• Robin Askwith
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• Revisit: Tokyo Story
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• Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
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• Sarah Perry
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• Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken
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• Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden
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• Kindness
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• The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi
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• Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion
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• The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton
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• WW II radio propaganda & French relations
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• Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia
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• Revisit: Mark Haddon
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• Cary Grant
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• Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
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• Alternative Realities
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• Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf
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• Deep Time and the Earth
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• Belonging
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• New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives
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• Revisit: What does game playing teach us
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• Knees
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• New Thinking: Wordsworth
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• The Declaration Of Arbroath
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• How do we build a new masculinity ?
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• What's so great about EM Forster
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• Future Thinking
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• Contagion and Viruses
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• Shoes
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• New Thinking: Science Fiction
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• Does Growth Matter?
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• Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture
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• Advertising & Artemisia
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• Fighting Women
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• Jewish Identity in 2020
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• Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
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• Frank Ramsey
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• New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality
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• Anne Enright + the value of gossip
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• Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
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• Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
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• Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
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• Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
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• How archictecture shapes society
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• New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people
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• Japan Now 2020
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• Genes, racism, ageing and evidence
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• African Empire Stories
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• The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky
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• Queer histories
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• The History of Sex
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• The shadow of slavery
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• Early cinema: why are we obsessed with firsts?
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• Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture
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• Mocking power past and present.
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• New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution
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• Fungi: An Alien Encounter
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• How we see pregnancy past and present
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• Remembering Auschwitz
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• What is good listening?
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• Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse
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• Goddesses of academia
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• New Thinking: About Face
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• Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
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• Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"
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• Simplify your life
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• Philosophy and Film
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• Could there be a private language?
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• Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?
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• The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile
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• The culture wars and politics now.
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• Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World
";
• New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories
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• Speaking the right language.
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• The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton
";
• Pan-Africanism
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• The shadow of empire and colonialism
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• Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security
";
• When TV & the information superhighway were new
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• Resting And Rushing
";
• The future of universities
";
• Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
";
• New Thinking: George Eliot
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• The Mill on the Floss
";
• Are the arts saving Margate?
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• Why We Need New News
";
• The Legacy of the Trojan War
";
• New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019
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• Being Human: Love Stories
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• The Changing Image of Masculinity.
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• Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture
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• The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate
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• Quatermass
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• New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany
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• Halloween. Ghost Stories
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• Cars, Parking and Motorways
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• Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
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• Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
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• What to Believe
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• New Thinking: First Encounters
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• Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate
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• Dictators
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• The Woolly Episode
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• 2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
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• East Meets West
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• Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill
";
• Modern Dutch Writing
";
• The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art
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• Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day.
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• New Thinking: Places of Poetry & The Colonial Countryside Project
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• From The Spains to LatinX
";
• Surveillance, Conspiracy, and Secrets from the Archives
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• Anxiety
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• Back to the '80s
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• Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
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• Tolerance, censorship and free speech.
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• New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability
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• Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft
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• Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving Home
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• Proms Plus: Letters
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• Proms Plus: Sacrifice
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• Proms Plus: Landscape
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• Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy
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• Proms Plus: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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• Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
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• Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
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• Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan
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• Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
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• Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
";
• Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction
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• Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.
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• Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
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• Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
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• Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe
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• Proms Plus: Tragedy
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• Proms Plus: Swans
";
• Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking
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• Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
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• Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
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• Proms Plus: Music and Health
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• Proms Plus: Moon Landing
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• Book Parts and Difficulty
";
• New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
";
• New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations
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• New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
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• New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles
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• New Thinking: City Talk
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• Camille Paglia
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• An insider's view of war
";
• Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.
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• Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
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• Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.
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• Russia and Fear.
";
• Free Thinking: Language and Belonging
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• Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.
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• Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming
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• Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak
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• The Hard Man in the Call-Centre
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• 'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The history of the three-piece suit
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• James Ellroy
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• Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali
";
• Comrades in Arms
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• Landmark: Finnegans Wake
";
• Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
";
• The well-groomed Georgian
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• Afropean Identities. Filming the Arab Spring.
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• Michael Rakowitz, Archaeology Now, Epic Journeys and Facial Disfigurement
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• Breaking Down the Barriers
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• Orwell's 1984. A Landmark of Culture.
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• Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?
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• AI and creativity: what makes us human?
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• Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay.
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• Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
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• Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy
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• Censorship and sex
";
• Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn Forché
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• Rivers, different cultures, different values
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• Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration
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• Rivers and geopolitics
";
• Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
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• Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.
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• Wolfson History Prize Discussion.
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• Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model
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• Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize
";
• Landmark: Audre Lorde
";
• Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers
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• 20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World.
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• Does My Pet Love Me?
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• The New Age of Sentimentality
";
• Why We Need Weepies
";
• The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion
";
• Should Doctors Cry?
";
• Where Do Human Rights Come From?
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• The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
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• The Unsaid
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• Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
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• The Way We Used To Feel
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• Who Wrote Animal Farm?
";
• How They Manipulate Our Emotions
";
• Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival
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• The Emotion of Now
";
• Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century
";
• Healthy Eating Edwardian Style
";
• 'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get?
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• Shopping Around the Baby Market
";
• Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
";
• Being Diplomatic
";
• The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
";
• Anxiety and the Teenage Brain
";
• A city is not a park but should it be?
";
• Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson
";
• Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture
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• Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
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• Betrayal
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• Childhood faces and fears
";
• Empathy
";
• George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri
";
• Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women
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• The Council Estate in Culture
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• Is British Culture Getting Wierder?
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• Women, relationships and the law past and present
";
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
";
• David Bailey, Don McCullin
";
• The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.
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• Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
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• Jack the Ripper and women as victims
";
• Images of Japan
";
• Authority in the Era of Populism
";
• The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature
";
• Patti LuPone
";
• Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
";
• Love
";
• Africa Babel China
";
• Spike Lee
";
• Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds
";
• Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.
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• Street Culture, Protests, Food.
";
• Sea Goings
";
• Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
";
• Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.
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• Consent
";
• Slow Looking at Art
";
• Oscars 2019
";
• Icons.
";
• Tourism past and present
";
• Walls
";
• Boredom
";
• Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette
";
• Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box
";
• The Digital Humanities
";
• Landmark: Watership Down
";
• What does game playing teach us?
";
• Trees of Knowledge
";
• Ice
";
• Linton Kwesi Johnson
";
• Writing and Frankness
";
• Are we being manipulated?
";
• Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
";
• Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
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• Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.
";
• Slavery Stories
";
• Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books
";
• Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.
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• The Left Behind
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• What kind of history should we write?
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