the ideas shaping our lives & links between past & present discussed Friday 9pm BBC Radio 4 / BBC Arts & Ideas podcast
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
3 Dec 2024
another wide-ranging episode of @BBCFreeThinking @BBCRadio4 on the anthropology, politics & theology of the gift. A topic that needs a refresh—& with many traps. @ShahidhaBari introduces @ESOldfield @Rhodri_H_Davies @profgeraldmoore, Sophie Scott-Brown
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
18 Oct 2024
Signs, symbols and secrets on @BBCFreeThinking tonight - from Raphael's Ostrich to Pepe the Frog. @mariannaspring @lisabortolotti @csandis sort the esoteric from the exoteric. Live on @BBCRadio4 at 9pm. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023yg…
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
1 Oct 2024
Now here is @BBCFreeThinking @BBCRadio4 at its cornucopiac best.
@DrMatthewSweet, with @TheProfRog @MichaelLCrick @hrcastor @DavidEdmonds100 @KateMaltby & @Warburg_Library (where I spent many pre-internet PhD hours on goddess cults in the early 80s 🙂)
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
13 Sep 2024
I am absolutely delighted to see @BBCFreeThinking returning to @BBCRadio4. I still miss its R3 version & it won’t coax me away from Friday night junk TV like Rings of Power🙂. But with eg @annemcelvoy & @DrMatthewSweet, it will remain unmissable radio
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
29 Jun 2024
Need a new podcast?@BBCFreeThinking’s Arts & Ideas a is great listen. Clever, friendly Brits philosophising on escapism, time and the history of pranks. It’s like having a salon in my ears
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
18 Jun 2024
High-stakes voting now and in 1789 on ‘The Long View’
Really enjoyed recording this with @Freedland (a voice I knew so well) and @emile_chabal. Hats off to @ilov77 for all his work and editing through my dyslexic brain. Merci à tous !
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
15 Jun 2024
Prof Tom Simpson on @BBCFreeThinking, discussing global instability. "Actors are challenging the US-led order established after Bretton Woods. The Russian invasion of Ukraine tests American power, and others may seek to capitalise on this shift."
🎧 ow.ly/Fpwx50Sj3II
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
14 Jun 2024
Did William the Conqueror cause the housing crisis? Did a volcano dethrone Cleopatra? Long & short, micro & macro views of history on @BBCFreeThinking with Alison Light @TheZeinabBadawi @peterfrankopan @bronwenmaddox @BBCSteveR - live at 9pm on @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00202t…
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
7 Jun 2024
Take a breath from hurly burly of elex debate & listen to our @BBCFreeThinking exploration at 9 pm R 4 - on the politics and culture of dividing us into generations. Great cast inc GenZ, millennial, Gen X (me) and prod @ilov77 (a Grunge graduate). Also @BBCSounds
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
1 Jun 2024
Very much enjoyed this chat last night with @KateMaltby @KeithShiri & @stephenkb with @DrMatthewSweet leading the charge — on blockbusters, the depiction of civil wars, & a season of African cinemas on at @BFI now! 🌍🎞️Listen here ⬇️
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
31 May 2024
On tonight's @BBCFreeThinking we read America through the movies - Civil War & Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Cautionary tales? Alarmist fantasies? What do you think? I can share your points with @stephenkb @KateMaltby @sarahjilani & @KeithShiri live at 9 on @BBCRadio4.
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21 May 2024
Hear @JasiBP explain her research in the final third of this Free Thinking episode @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hzcd9…
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21 May 2024
We discussed intellectual vices, service with a smile 😃and "performing" at work and whether our guests were glass half full or empty people 🥃in Free Thinking @BBCRadio4 w/ @annemcelvoy @QCassam @M_Heffernan @IsabelOakeshott @JasiBP @RichardEvans36
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
16 May 2024
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16 May 2024
Congratulations to the ten early career researchers who have been announced as this year’s New Generation Thinkers, supported by AHRC and the BBC 🙌
Find out more about them:
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#NGT2024 @BBCFreeThinking
ALT Group photo of the New Generation Thinkers 2024 cohort
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16 May 2024
We'll be hearing more from @JonathanEgid @KingsCollegeLon as we introduce him as a 2024 New Generation Thinker @ahrcpress @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds🥳
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16 May 2024
New Generation Thinker @ahrcpress @emily_baughan @sheffielduni has already contributed to @BBCWomansHour 📻 @BBCRadio4 with her research on the history of childcare 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l9f…
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
16 May 2024
"I want to test, share, and develop ideas and take them beyond the academy."
@BeccaVoelcker on her research and ambitions in her new role as one of this year's New Generation Thinkers gold.ac.uk/news/becca-voelck…
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BBC Free Thinking retweeted
16 May 2024
Among the 10 "new generation thinkers" selected by the @BBC and @ahrcpress for media training and appearances on @BBCRadio4 are two philosophers... dailynous.com/2024/05/16/two…
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