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20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World.
We talk about “human emotion” as if all people, everywhere, feel the same. But three thinkers with an international perspective discuss how the expre…
6 years, 8 months ago
Does My Pet Love Me?
Two animal psychologists and a historian of animal studies join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclought to discuss whether it's possible to recognise similar t…
6 years, 8 months ago
The New Age of Sentimentality
Charles Dickens. Walt Disney. The Romantic poets..These renowned artists and entertainers were all accused of being “over-sentimental”. But is our ow…
6 years, 8 months ago
Why We Need Weepies
Poet and critic Bridget Minamore, TV drama expert John Yorke and film expert Melanie Williams join Matthew Sweet for a Brief Encounter at the Free Th…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion
Pascale Petit’s collection of poetry, Mama Amazonica, which explores motherhood, illness and pain through the foliage and creatures of the Amazon rai…
6 years, 8 months ago
Should Doctors Cry?
Anne McElvoy debates at the Free Thinking Festival with intensive care doctor Aoife Abbey, GP & Prof Louise Robinson, Naeem Soomro expert in using ro…
6 years, 8 months ago
Where Do Human Rights Come From?
You don't have to be religious to believe that, as the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, "all human beings have the right…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
Michael Talbot asks how can power be exerted over water? What do borders mean in the featureless desert of the ocean? These were questions faced by t…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Unsaid
Sarah Moss is a novelist and Professor at the University of Warwick. Her most recent book Ghost Wall articulates the tangled space of love, abuse and…
6 years, 9 months ago
Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
You are a liberal who opposes art being banned. But would a movie that calls for you to be killed change your view of censorship? This was the quanda…
6 years, 9 months ago