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the ideas shaping our lives & links between past & present discussed Friday 9pm BBC Radio 4 / BBC Arts & Ideas podcast
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Joined March 2011
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 https://t.co/CsGLsnpwlM
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Following Thanksgiving, and as Christmas approaches, Shahidha Bari on giving and receiving
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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. https://t.co/8kkyBv6aJx
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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 🙂) https://t.co/pVwCaRvJd6
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Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst.
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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 https://t.co/cGC9xri6Wz
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Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart
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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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TONIGHT at 21:00, to celebrate the summer solstice, I will be LIVE on @BBCFreeThinking to talk about Bergson's philosophy of durée with @DrMatthewSweet
https://t.co/mzYdNrOJ14
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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 ! https://t.co/VA3DZCn0Hi
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Jonathan Freedland and guests discuss historical parallels.
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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." 🎧
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Eliza Filby, Rana Mitter, Jo Hamya, Tom Simpson, plus Gaby Hinsliff.
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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
https://t.co/tFuIds9QIQ
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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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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 ⬇️ https://t.co/tLLgUwBc4l
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Stephen Bush, Dr Sarah Jilani, Kate Maltby and Keith Shiri join Matthew Sweet.
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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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Hear @JasiBP explain her research in the final third of this Free Thinking episode @BBCRadio4
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Sir Richard Evans, Margaret Heffernan, Isabel Oakeshott, Quassim Cassam join Anne McElvoy
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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 🎧➡️ https://t.co/nw4kiEpmM8
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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: https://t.co/fJnYB5zIv0
#NGT2024 @BBCFreeThinking
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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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New Generation Thinker @ahrcpress @emily_baughan @sheffielduni has already contributed to @BBCWomansHour 📻 @BBCRadio4 with her research on the history of childcare 🎧➡️
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Ruby Wax on being on a deserted island and the change in NHS maternity services since 1948
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"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
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Becca Voelcker was announced as one of 10 BBC New Generation Thinkers and talks about the her research and ambitions in this new role.
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Among the 10 "new generation thinkers" selected by the @BBC and @ahrcpress for media training and appearances on @BBCRadio4 are two philosophers...
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The BBC and the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have selected “ten of the UK’s most promising arts and humanities early career researchers” as this year’s “New Generation Thinkers,”...
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