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Being Diplomatic
How much emotion should you show if you are a diplomat, a news reporter or a conciliation expert? Anne McElvoy chairs a Free Thinking Festival debate…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
Daisy Black looks at religious imagery, food, anti-semitism and product placement in medieval mystery plays. Eaten by characters, dotted around the s…
6 years, 9 months ago
Anxiety and the Teenage Brain
Worrying is a natural part of growing-up. And yet the incidence of serious anxiety and depression is rapidly increasing. Psychologist Stephen Briers …
6 years, 9 months ago
A city is not a park but should it be?
From the story of Jonas Salk, who left the city of Pittsburgh for a medieval Italian town to create the space to think which led to the invention of …
6 years, 9 months ago
Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson
Many legal systems have allowed the accused the defence of a “crime of passion”: attributing their act to a sudden explosion of feeling, rather than …
6 years, 9 months ago
Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture
The idea of ‘emotions’ did not exist until the nineteenth century but now they are the subject of study and Professor Thomas Dixon was the first dir…
6 years, 9 months ago
Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
The writers of TV sitcoms The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet talk to Matthew Sweet. As a restoration of the film version of The Likel…
6 years, 9 months ago
Betrayal
From politics to religion, gangster films to espionage, Philip Dodd considers acts of betrayal, with theologian, Elaine Storkey, columnist Peter Hitc…
6 years, 9 months ago
Childhood faces and fears
A history of orphans in Britain, fears about post war brainwashing, childrens' letters to C19 newspapers and portraits on show at Compton Verney. Ann…
6 years, 9 months ago
Empathy
Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey and Alisdair Benjamin discuss empathy and the role it plays in writing and reading. How does it work? Is it the s…
6 years, 9 months ago