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Free Thinking

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Apr. 7, 2020, 1:51 am

Tuesday 7th April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Religion and Ordinary Lives.

From the experiences of Quaker wives in the 17th century to the samplers and bibles in the homes of workers in the Industrial Revolution, Dr Naomi Pullin from the University of Warwick and Professor Hannah Barker of the University of Manchester join historian and New Generation Thinker Tom Charlton to compare notes on the way their research marks a shift in the way religious beliefs of past times are being studied. Naomi Pullin is the author of Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750. Hannah Barker is Director of the John Rylands Research Institute and Historical Advisor for the National Trust at Quarry Bank Mill and has written on family, gender and business in the Industrial Revolution.

2antimuzak
Apr. 9, 2020, 1:50 am

Thursday 9th April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Deep Time and the Earth.

Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to discuss the philosophy of deep ecology, first coined in the 1970s, and the idea that humans are part of the earth, rather than separate from it.

3antimuzak
Apr. 14, 2020, 1:54 am

Tuesday 14th April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

What's so great about EM Forster.

Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about the writer's work, from his earliest novel Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to his Essay Aspects of the Novel. Recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature at the British Library.

4antimuzak
Apr. 16, 2020, 1:46 am

Thursday 16th April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Sounds of Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Bookshelf.

Rana Mitter is joined by Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves to explore the books that inspired Shakespeare from the bible and classical stories to the writing of some of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The programme was recorded in front of an audience in BBC Radio 3's pop-up studio as part of Radio 3's Stratford residency at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

5antimuzak
Apr. 22, 2020, 1:45 am

Wednesday 22nd April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Rana Mitter is joined by guests Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova to discuss how writing can inspire an environmental movement, focusing on Rachel Carson's passionate book, Silent Spring, first published in 1962.

6antimuzak
Apr. 23, 2020, 1:44 am

Thursday 23rd April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Shakespeare for the People.

Actor Adrian Lester and Professor Ewan Fernie talks to Islam Issa about Birmingham's first folio and the man who brought it to the city. The Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library was founded with the help of George Dawson - a man who had a powerful vision of Birmingham as a progressive social and cultural centre in the mid 19th century. The library houses Britain's most important Shakespeare collection, comprising 43,000 volumes, including a copy of the First Folio 1623. Over three years, the Everything to Everybody project aims to share these cultural riches with the people of Birmingham in a wide range of imaginative way.

7antimuzak
Mai 5, 2020, 1:51 am

Tuesday 5th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Encyclopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia.

Jimmy Wales talks Diderot and collecting knowledge, and Tariq Goddard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk. The French writer Diderot was thrown into prison in 1749 for his atheism, worked on ideas of democracy at the Russian court of Catherine the Great and collaborated on the creation of the first Encyclopédie. Biographer Andrew S Curran and Jenny Mander look at Diderot's approach to editing the first encyclopedia. Plus writer and publisher Tariq Goddard on the work and legacy of his collaborator and friend, the critical theorist Mark Fisher who analysed the culture of Capitalism following the economic crash of 2008. Shahidha Bari presents. Diderot and the art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S Curran is out now. k-punk: the collected and unpublished writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2017) edited by Darren Ambrose is out now.

8antimuzak
Mai 7, 2020, 1:45 am

Thursday 7th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Big State and the Industrial Revolution.

John Gallagher discusses new research on Victorian industry with historians Emma Griffin of the University of East Anglia and William Ashworth of the University of Liverpool.

9antimuzak
Mai 12, 2020, 1:45 am

Tuesday 12th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

The 2020 Wolfson History Prize.

Rana Mitter introduces the first three shortlisted authors for the Wolfson History Prize, talking to Marion Turner, Toby Green and John Barton.

10antimuzak
Mai 14, 2020, 1:49 am

Thursday 14th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion.

Rana Mitter and an audience at the British Academy debate history writing and hear from the six historians on the shortlist for the 2019 Wolfson writing prize. The books are Building Anglo-Saxon England by John Blair; Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook; Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson by Margarette Lincoln; Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott; Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis; and Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor.

11antimuzak
Mai 19, 2020, 1:49 am

Tuesday 19th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi.

Rana Mitter introduces the second set of shortlisted authors for the Wolfson History Prize, talking to David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold and Prashant Kidambi.

12antimuzak
Mai 20, 2020, 2:07 am

Wednesday 20th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Kindness.

Rutger Bregman challenges ideas about the selfish gene, and survival of the fittest with stories of human co-operation and kindness as he publishes a book called Human Kind - A Hopeful History. Plus in Mental Health Awareness Week, Dr Sylvan Baker on rethinking the way we treat kids in care.

13antimuzak
Mai 21, 2020, 1:44 am

Thursday 21st May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

My Body Clock Is Broken.

Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health. How does depression affect our sense of time and the rhythms of daily life? Our body clocks have long been seen by scientists as integral to our physical and mental health - but what happens when mental illness disrupts or even stops that clock? Presenter Anne McElvoy is joined by those who have suffered depression and those who treat it - and they attempt to offer some solutions. Jay Griffiths is the author of Tristimania: a Diary of Manic Depression and a book Pip Pip which explores attitudes to time across the world. Doctor Vincent Deary teaches at Northumbria University, works as a clinician in the UK's first trans-diagnostic Fatigue Clinic and is the author of a trilogy about How To Live - the first of which is called How We Are. Professor Louise Robinson is Director of Newcastle University's Institute for Ageing and Professor of Primary Care and Ageing. Professor Matthew Smith is a New Generation Thinker from 2012 who teaches at Strathclyde University at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. This programme was recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead in 2017 and is being broadcast now as part of the BBC's contribution to Mental Health Awareness week.

14antimuzak
Mai 27, 2020, 1:51 am

Wednesday 27th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Sarah Perry.

Matthew Sweet talks to author Sarah Perry about her gothic imagination, writing about religion, rationalism and disease in novels including The Essex Serpent, After Me Comes The Flood and Melmoth. Recorded from her home in Norwich, Sarah discusses her experience of these times as someone who has an auto-immune condition.

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Mai 28, 2020, 1:46 am

Thursday 28th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written about Auden, Dostoevsky and tragedy. At Hay Festival he talks to poet Simon Armitage about the imprint of landscapes in Yorkshire, West Wales, and the Middle East, the use of dialect words and reinterpreting myths. Chaired by Rana Mitter. Books by Rowan Williams include Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction and The Tragic Imagination. He is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Books by Simon Armitage include The Unaccompanied, Flit, Selected Poems, Walking Home, Travelling Songs, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Homer's Odyssey.

16antimuzak
Jun. 9, 2020, 2:02 am

Tuesday 9th June 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Dickens.

Matthew Sweet with Linda Grant, Laurence Scott and Lucy Whitehead. Dickens died on 9 June 1870. Our panel have been re-reading his novels, including Bleak House and Great Expectations, and looking at how Dickens' biography was written in the years that followed his death. Linda Grant is the author of books including A Stranger City, The Dark Circle and When I Lived in Modern Times. Laurence Scott is the author of The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World and Picnic Comma Lightning. He is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Lucy Whitehead is at the University of Cardiff studying biographies of Dickens and the art of Graingerising.

17antimuzak
Jun. 10, 2020, 1:51 am

Wednesday 10th June 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Failure and Female Friendship.

Shahidha Bari presents a conversation on coping with a sense of failure, joined by authors Michele Roberts, Lara Feigel and Alexandra Reza.

18antimuzak
Jun. 16, 2020, 1:51 am

Tuesday 16th June 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Antarctica: Testing Ground for the Human Species.

One hundred years ago, Ernest Shackleton set out on his Trans-Antarctic expedition, which ended when his ship Endurance became trapped in packed ice. The lure of this polar region remains strong both in people's imaginations and in terms of understanding what is happening to the planet. It is seen both as an untapped source of resources and a pristine landscape that must be preserved. Rana Mitter is joined by writer Meredith Hooper, who has visited Antarctica under the auspices of three governments, Australia, UK and USA; Ben Saunders, who recently completed the longest human-powered polar exploration in history, to the South Pole and back, retracing Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition; architect Hugh Broughton, the designer behind Halley VI, the UK's scientific base on the Brent Ice Shelf; and Jonathan Bamber, one of the world's leading experts on ice.

19antimuzak
Jun. 24, 2020, 1:48 am

Wednesday 24th June 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Rethinking the Curriculum.

Sandeep Parmar, Jade Cuttle, Edith Hall, Seb Falk and Rana Mitter talk about teaching and debate the syllabus in state schools.

20antimuzak
Jun. 25, 2020, 1:46 am

Thursday 25th June 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Arundhati Roy.

Arundhati Roy, the Man Booker prize-winning author and campaigner, is in conversation with Philip Dodd about a life in the public eye and the novel she published 20 years after The God of Small Things.

21antimuzak
Jul. 22, 2020, 1:50 am

Wednesday 22nd July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long)

Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland.

Anne Applebaum talks to Anne McElvoy about what happened when she tried to connect up with past friends whose politics are now different to her own. Will Abberley discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's view of fashion and why women should not seek to stand out because a focus on their appearance was counterproductive to them gaining more public power.

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Jul. 28, 2020, 1:57 am

Tuesday 28th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Standford.

The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has written a philosophical take on the current pandemic and what it tells us about society. He talks with Stella Sandford, Director of the Society for European Philosophy in the UK and author of How to Read Beauvoir, whose own research looks at sex, race and feminism, and with Homi Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.

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Jul. 29, 2020, 1:53 am

Wednesday 29th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Wole Soyinka's Writing.

Novelist Ben Okri, playwright Oladipo Agboluaje and academic Louisa Egbunike join Matthew Sweet to look at the influential writing of Nigerian playwright and author Wole Soyinka.

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Sept. 22, 2020, 1:49 am

Tuesday 22nd September 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Get Carter.

Get Carter, the film starring Michael Caine, was adapted from a 1970 Ted Lewis novel set in an underworld of massage parlours and teenage pornography. Mike Hodges, Nick Triplow, Pamela Hutchinson and John Gray talk with Matthew Sweet about the influence of the book and film. Originally set in Scunthorpe, Lewis's novel Jack's Return Home was relocated to Newcastle/Gateshead for the film which Mike Hodges directed. A series of events marking what would have been Ted Lewis's 80th birthday are taking place at Scunthorpe, Newcastle, Barton-upon-Humber and Hull. Jack's Return Home (1970) was published in 1971 as Carter and later re-published as Get Carter after the film was made. Nick Triplow is the author of a biography Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir.

25antimuzak
Sept. 24, 2020, 1:48 am

Thursday 24th September 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and Socialist Futures.

Anne McElvoy talks to Edmund Fawcett about historic and contemporary conflicts in the Conservative tradition, and Paul Vallely on contradictions at the heart of philanthropy.

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