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Belonging
"I have no relation or friend" - words spoken by Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. That story, alongside Georg Büchner's expressio…
4 years, 4 months ago
Green Thinking: Fashion
The fast fashion industry stands accused of depleting natural resources, creating vast carbon emissions and producing endless garments destined for l…
4 years, 4 months ago
Glitches
One definition of a glitch is a short-lived fault in a system operating otherwise as it should. Glitches in digital systems have been used by artists…
4 years, 4 months ago
Dante's visions
Descending into the nine circles of Hell is one of the key ideas set out in Dante's Inferno. Today's Free Thinking looks at the way his thinking and …
4 years, 4 months ago
Saint John Henry Newman
Catherine Pepinster, Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel join Rana Mitter to look at the poet, theologian and no…
4 years, 5 months ago
Revisit Shoes
From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos. Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade, with guests including Thomas Turner, who has written about sneak…
4 years, 5 months ago
Revisit The influence of the British black arts movement
Artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Eddie Chambers and Harold Offeh talk to Anne McElvoy about their art and the influence of the British black arts m…
4 years, 5 months ago
Revisit: Tokyo Idols and Urban Life
Tokyo used to be presented as the ultimate hyper-modern city. But after years of economic recession the Tokyo of today has another side. A site of al…
4 years, 5 months ago
Revisit Rashōmon
Who can you trust? That's the question posed in Rashōmon. In today's programme Rana Mitter's guests David Peace, Natasha Pulley, Yuna Tasaka and Jasp…
4 years, 5 months ago
Bette Davis
A spinster dominated by her mother in Now Voyager (1942), a strong-willed Southern belle in Jezebel (1938) which won her an Academy award for best ac…
4 years, 5 months ago