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  1. Free Thinking Essay: Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present

    Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and now.

  2. Free Thinking Essay: Russia's Sacred Ruins

    Victoria Donovan on the dilemmas of post-war reconstruction in Soviet Russia.

  3. Free Thinking Essay: Monks, Models and Medieval Time

    Seb Falk on the 14th century monks who studied astronomy, a world of science & religion.

  4. Free Thinking Essay: Killing Time in Imperial Japan

    Christopher Harding explores the Tokyo of a century ago when 'time' was hotly contested.

  5. Free Thinking Essay: Kids With Guns

    Emma Butcher looks at the view of war in the childhood writings of the Bronte family.

  6. Free Thinking Essay: England's First European

    John Gallagher marks the 400th anniversary of Fynes Moryson's great travel book.

  7. Free Thinking Essay: Educating Ida

    Eleanor Lybeck on the women campaigners satirised in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.

  8. Free Thinking Essay: Doing Nothing

    Alastair Fraser on teenagers, gangs and filling time.

  9. Free Thinking Essay: Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?

    Tom Simpson on a study of suspicion in a 1950s Italian village & community relations now

  10. Free Thinking Essay: Alexander the Great's Lost City

    New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson with a story linking Egypt and Afghanistan.

  11. Free Thinking Essay: A War of Words

    Christopher Bannister on the way a fashion show in Buenos Aires helped win World War II.

  12. Free Thinking 2012 - Martin Goodman

    Martin Goodman, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the perils...

  13. Free Thinking - Feature: Bamburgh Castle

    Dr Alun Withey researches an 18th C healthcare scheme at Bamburg Castle in Northumberland

  14. Free Thinking

    This week's Arts & Ideas podcast features extracts from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.

  15. Frank Cottrell Boyce, Lisa Jardine and the street versus the internet

    Frank Cottrell Boyce on the joys of failure; Lisa Jardine and her scientist father's -...

  16. Francis Fukuyama, train murders, Dining with Alice, Vidal Sassoon

    Francis Fukuyama talks about his new book. A discussion about train murders.

  17. Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns

    Jade Halbert looks at the designs inspired by English history created by Angela Holmes

  18. Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history

    Tom Smith links school blazers and clothes worn by East German soldiers to clubbing

  19. Fashion Stories: In a handbag

    Shahidha Bari looks at what the contents of a handbag can tell us

  20. Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring

    Lauren Working explores the Cavalier look from Charles I to Harry Styles

  21. Fashion Stories: Body Armour

    Sophie Oliver looks at a Mina Loy corselet and the history of reshaping bodies

  22. Facing Facts

    From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to people's faces

  23. Facing Facts

    From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to peoples' faces

  24. Essay - The Magic Years

    Medical historian Matthew Smith on 1970s US psychiatry - a time of hope and promise.

  25. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman’s Rights

    Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence

  26. Elif Safak at Free Thinking Festival

    The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak talks to Rana Mitter in an interview recorded at last...

  27. Egyptian Satire

    Dina Rezk explores the power of humour and protest

  28. Egyptian Satire

    The power of humour in protest.

  29. Edward St Aubyn, Super Injunctions & Pakistan

    Edward St Aubyn talks about his new book, At Last, the final in the Patrick Melrose...

  30. Edna O'Brien, Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Edna O'Brien talks to Philip Dodd about her new book Saints & Sinners.

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