• 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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• Anxiety and the Teenage Brain
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• A city is not a park but should it be?
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• Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson
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• 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
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• Empathy
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• George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri
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• 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
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• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
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• David Bailey, Don McCullin
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• 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
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• Images of Japan
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• Authority in the Era of Populism
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• The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature
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• Patti LuPone
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• Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
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• Love
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• Africa Babel China
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• Spike Lee
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• Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds
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• Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.
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• Street Culture, Protests, Food.
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• Sea Goings
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• Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
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• Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.
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• Consent
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• Slow Looking at Art
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• Oscars 2019
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• Icons.
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• Tourism past and present
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• Walls
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• Boredom
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• Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette
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• Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box
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• The Digital Humanities
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• Landmark: Watership Down
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• What does game playing teach us?
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• Trees of Knowledge
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• Ice
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• Linton Kwesi Johnson
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• Writing and Frankness
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• Are we being manipulated?
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• Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
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• Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
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• Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.
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• Slavery Stories
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• Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books
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• 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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• Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.
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• Death rituals
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• Lost Words and Language
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• Why are we silent when conflict is loud?
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• Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War
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• Landmark: Journey to the End of the Night
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• Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.
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• Re-thinking the Human Condition
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• Religious divisions, puppet shows and politics.
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• The Memes that Make Us Laugh
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• From the Gallows to the Holy Land: Medieval Pilgrimage
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• The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction.
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• Mike Leigh
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• Playing God
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• Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands
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• Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot.
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• Re-writing C20th British Philosophy
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• Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires
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• Discrimination
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• Greed and Landownership Past, Present, Future
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• Drugs and Consciousness
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• A Feminist Take on Medieval History
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• The Frieze Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
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• Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, Spookiness and Fear.
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• Gandhi's power, portable citizenship & Indian writing - China's missing film star
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• Loss, Grief and Anger
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• Slavoj Žižek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
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• The Goodies
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• What Nietzsche teaches us
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• What Camus and Claude Lévi-Strauss teach us
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• What St Augustine teaches us
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• Proms Plus: Retelling Troy
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• Sebastian Faulks
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• Women Finding a Voice
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• Design
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• Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature
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• Proms Plus: Northern Lights
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• Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety
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• Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture
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• Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES
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• Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales
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• Proms Plus: Ecstatic States
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• Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania
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• Proms Plus:The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos
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• Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry
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• Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland
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• Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction
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• Proms Plus: Mountains
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• Proms Plus: Funny Fiction
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• Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined
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• Proms Plus: Birds and Humans
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• Proms Plus: The Wanderer
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• Proms Plus – exploring the narrative voice in literature
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• Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe
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• Howard Jacobson
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• Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard
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• Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.
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• From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living
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• Renzo Piano
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• What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.
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• Fun Home, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter
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• The body, past and present
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• The Working Lunch and Food in History
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• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman’s Rights
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• John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet
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• Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
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• The Forgotten German Princess
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• Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler
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• Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas
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• Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz
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• The Word For World Is Forest
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• The Piano and Love
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• Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'
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• Mark Lilla. Owen Hatherley. Gulzaar Barn.
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• The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President
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• Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley
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• The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning
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• American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.
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• Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
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• Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas
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• Tacita Dean; Mountains, John Tyndall
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• The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate
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• In Conversation: Philip Roth (1933 - 2018)
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• Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch
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• Jordan B Peterson
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• Designing the future
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• John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism
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• What is Speech?
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• Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan
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• Out of Control?
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• Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars
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• Marxism
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• America: Inequality & Race
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• Tokyo Idols and Urban life.
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• Landmark: Rashōmon
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• Japan and Nature
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• Learning from Sweden
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• Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer
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• The Politics of Fashion and Drag
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• Marilynne Robinson
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• Macbeth and Things Fall Apart
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• British New Wave Films of the '60s
";
• Death Comes to Us All
";
• What Do We Mean by "Working Class Writing"?
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• Introducing the New Generation Thinkers 2018
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• Building Bridges and Other Megastructures
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• #Speaking Up
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• Mass Hysterics
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• Can There Be Multiple Versions of Me?
";
• Free Thinking Essay: What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?
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• Free Thinking Essay: Kids With Guns
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• Rethinking Civilisations
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• Free Thinking Essay: Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present
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• Gangs, the Usual Suspects
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• Power to the People?
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• Free Thinking Essay: When Shakespeare Travelled With Me
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• Are We Afraid of Being Alone?
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• Free Thinking Essay: A War of Words
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• Free Thinking Essay: Doing Nothing
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• Has Social Media Cracked the Code to the Crowd?
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• Free Thinking Essay: Educating Ida
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• Podcast: There Is No I in Team
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• Free Thinking Essay: Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?
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• Free Thinking Essay:Art for Health's Sake
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• The Dance of Nature
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• Free Thinking Essay: Welling Up: Women & Water in the Middle Ages
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• The Population Bomb
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• The Free Thinking Lecture: Linda Yueh on Globalisation
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• New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement.
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• The Golden Notebook
";
• A Sentimental Journey
";
• What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs
";
• The Joy of Bureaucracy
";
• Steven Pinker on Progress
";
• Napoleon in Fact & Fiction
";
• Reflecting Rural Life
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