Being Diplomatic

Anne McElvoy talks to Gabrielle Rifkind, William J Burns and Gabriel Gatehouse.

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'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get.

Suffragism, black activism & Brexit. Shahidha Bari chairs a Free Thinking Festival debate.

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The Emotions of Now

What's the most pertinent emotion in 2019 UK: Joy, anger, anxiety, schadenfreude or shame?

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How They Manipulate Our Emotions

An adman, VR creator, gamer, psychologist and Shahidha Bari at the Free Thinking Festival.

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The Way We Used To Feel

From Neanderthals via Tudor England to Chartists - four historians on emotion in the past.

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The Unsaid

Sarah Moss, Una, Michael Richardson and Harriet Shawcross at the Free Thinking Festival.

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Should Doctors Cry?

Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age?

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Why We Need Weepies

From Bambi and Titanic to EastEnders - Matthew Sweet asks what makes us cry and why?

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The New Age of Sentimentality

Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Hewitt and Irenosen Okojie at the Free Thinking Festival.

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Does My Pet Love Me?

A Free Thinking Festival discussion with Nicky Clayton, Erica Fudge and Kim Bard.

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20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World

Aatish Taseer, Veronica Strang and Thomas Dixon at the Free Thinking Festival.

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Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers

From techno music in Berlin to the Glasgow ‘rag trade’, and divisive dams to fake news.

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Landmark: Audre Lorde

Jackie Kay and Selina Thompson on the influential US writer and civil rights activist.

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The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion.

Alan Johnson, Pascale Petit, Hisham Matar and Peter Pomerantsev join Eleanor Barraclough.

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Learning about love from Kierkegaard and Socrates, The Wellcome Book Prize

A philosopher of love and a philosopher in love.

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Born in 1819: Whitman, Melville and Ward Howe

Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.

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Chaucer, Bernardine Evaristo

Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer and talks to novelist Bernardine Evaristo.

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Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic and the Mind.

Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns with Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias

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Rivers and geopolitics

Global Dams, ancient Rome and the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity.

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Rivers, poetry and ecology

An anthropologist, a poet, an archaeologist and an angler reflect on the culture of rivers

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Sebald, Anti-semitism, Carolyn Forche

The walking and photographs of WG Sebald and an exhibition of money and Jewish history.

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Censorship and sex

Naomi Wolf discusses the criminalisation of love with presenter Matthew Sweet.

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Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy

Authors Nicola Upson and Joanne Ramos, and researchers Gulzaar Barn and Ella Parry-Davies.

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2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion

Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy.

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Homi K Bhabha: On Memory and Migration

Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.

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Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

Rana Mitter hosts a debate at Hay Festival about the rise of the environmental movement.

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Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay

Rana Mitter discusses writing on art from da Vinci and Rembrandt to Louise Bourgeois.

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AI and creativity: what makes us human?

A discussion hosted by Matthew Sweet at the Barbican's exhibition AI More Than Human.

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Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?

A panel of researchers share insights into the law and warfare, gender and AI.

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Orwell's 1984 - a Landmark of Culture

Matthew Sweet explores what fed into Orwell's future vision and how our own is shaping up.

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