American Culture
Free Thinking explores American culture. Guests include Claudia Rankine, Niall Ferguson, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Bourne…
The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art
Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Michael Govan talks art with Philip Dodd.
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Democracy, Hong Kong and USA
Democracy and dissent in Hong Kong and the USA. Are confrontational politics here to stay?
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James Baldwin and Race in the USA
Rana Mitter and guests re-read James Baldwin as a new US president is inaugurated.
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Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.
Philip Dodd visits the US rust-belt city of Cleveland.
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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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Born in 1819: Whitman, Melville and Ward Howe
Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.
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Spike Lee
The film-maker talks black power, blackface and Academy Awards with Matthew Sweet.
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Oscars 2019
Matthew Sweet & guests look at films making waves as the Academy announces its shortlists.
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Slavery Stories
A long-lost classic now published and Esi Edugyan's Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel.
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Leadership: lessons from US presidents and campaigners
Doris Kearns Goodwin on what makes a good president. Plus Georgina Harding on war.
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The man who convinced Jimmy Carter to run for president
Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.
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American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths
Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman, and the careers picked by psychopaths.
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America: Inequality & Race
Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.
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Marilynne Robinson
The American novelist and essayist talks religion, fiction & US politics with Rana Mitter.
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Counterculture and Protest
Matthew Sweet with Paul Hartnoll, Tony White, Tessa DeCarlo and Paul Cronin on uprisings.
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The Joy of Bad Films
Weathermen member Jonathan Lerner on underground protest & The Disaster Artist reviewed.
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Documenting through photography and poetry
The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale and Kate Flint
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Martin Luther King, Poets and Political Protest
Shahidha Bari and guests mark Martin Luther King's visit to Newcastle University in 1967.
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Kathe Kollwitz, John Ashbery, Social Conservatism in US and Europe
Art and irony - Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna on the Kathe Kollwitz show in Birmingham.
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Art in the Age of Black Power, History of Racist Ideas in US
Including the art of the black power movement and the history of racist ideas in the US.
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Landmark: Leaves of Grass
Poets Mark Doty and Andrew McMillan and Professor Sarah Churchwell on Walt Whitman's poem.
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John Irving
The author of The Cider House Rules on religion, Mexico and the USA. With Philip Dodd.
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Images of America
As London hosts two exhibitions of American art, Anne McElvoy discusses the American Dream
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Art Spiegelman, Marina Abramovic, American Pastoral
Graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and jazz composer Phillip Johnston on their collaboration.
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