- Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan
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- John Rawls's A Theory of Justice
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- James Baldwin and race in USA
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- Harlots & 18th Century Working Women
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- Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil
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- New Thinking: Women and Slavery
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- Autism, film and patterns
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- New Thinking: Aphra Behn
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- Dostoevsky
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- Mildred Pierce
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- Marlene Dietrich
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- Winter Light
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- Hegel's Philosophy of Right
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- Ancient wisdom & remote living
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- New Thinking: Hey Presto!
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- New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health
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- The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age
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- Times of Change
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- Mould-Breaking Writing
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- When Shakespeare Travelled with Me
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- Leadership & authority
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- Politician and Pioneer
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- Beastly Politics
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- Bedrooms
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- Byron, celebrity and fan mail
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- Should biographers imitate their subjects?
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- Democracy, Hong Kong and USA
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- Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo
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- New Thinking: Films and Research
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- New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries
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- Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
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- The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
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- Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
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- Billy Wilder
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- New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture
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- War in fact and fiction
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- Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
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- Individualism and Community
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- The post-Covid city
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- The Writing of Aime Cesaire
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- Polari Prize winners
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- Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
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- Post Truth & Derrida
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- Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid
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- New Thinking about Museums
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- The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
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- Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
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- New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois
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- Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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- Cows in culture and soil
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- Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020
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- Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures
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- New Thinking: The impact of being multilingual
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- Get Carter
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- Family ties and reshaping history
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- New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History
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- Piranesi and disturbing archecture
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- 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
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- 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
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- Pan-Africanism
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- The shadow of empire and colonialism
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- Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security
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- When TV & the information superhighway were new
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- Resting And Rushing
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- The future of universities
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- Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
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- New Thinking: George Eliot
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- The Mill on the Floss
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- Are the arts saving Margate?
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- Why We Need New News
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- The Legacy of the Trojan War
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- 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
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- Modern Dutch Writing
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Comrades in Arms
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- Landmark: Finnegans Wake
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- Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Landmark: Audre Lorde
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- 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
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- Why We Need Weepies
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- The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion
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- Should Doctors Cry?
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- 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?
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- How They Manipulate Our Emotions
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- Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival
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- The Emotion of Now
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- Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century
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- Healthy Eating Edwardian Style
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- 'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get?
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- Shopping Around the Baby Market
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- Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
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- Being Diplomatic
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- The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
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