Just getting ready for tonight’s discussion about Plato/live Scrabble game. BBC Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm. Players: Kate Maltby Sophie Grace Chappell Takeshi Morisato Dorian Lynskey. We’ll also deal with all the subjects on the board. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Tonight BBC Free Thinking crosses the streams to BBC Radio 4. Is Hobbes’ Social Contract about to expire? How coherent is ABBA’s Weltanschauung? Are these scones secretly woke? James Kirkup Sophie Scott-Brown Dr Joanne Paul & Barry C Smith on the case at 9pm. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

10.45pm tonight BBC Radio 3: In the final essay from the class of 2023, New Generation Thinker Dr Isabella Rosner on embroidered nutmegs, shadow boxes and the amazing things that early modern Quaker women were getting up to Arts and Humanities Research Council

My BBC Radio 3 Essay is now available to listen to here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…. It'll air live on Friday at 10:45pm. It's about the very opulent art of early Quaker women. I discuss Elizabeth Hall's embroidered nutmeg, Rachel Reckless' sampler, & Ann Reckless Emlen's shadow box

It’s the last ever BBC Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 before our move to BBC Radio 4. Will Virginia Woolf convince the Navy she is an Abyssinian prince? Who will triumph in our game of rubber biscuit Russian roulette? Find out live at 10pm. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Pranks, hoaxes, stunts, practical jokes - are they inevitably cruel? Do they have a purpose beyond amusing the prankster and their audience? Warning: contains rubber biscuits & priapic coffee mugs. Simon Brodkin Matthew Sweet bbc.in/3VD5bt1

After tonight’s BBC Free Thinking catch New Generation Thinker Ana Baeza-Ruiz asking the question: What does feminist art mean? Arts and Humanities Research Council BBC Radio 3

Congrats to all the authors 👏🍾 and you can hear New Generation Thinker Noreen Masud @VikingBooksUk discussing #AFlatPlace in this recording for BBC Radio 3 Hay Festival 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f…

We spoke to Gayle Chong Kwan BBC Radio 3 for a discussion about religious connections with Chris Harding and Rowan Williams Info - Listen here 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

Listen to a discussion about Scottish kingship and the Stone of Destiny BBC Radio 3 hosted by anne mcelvoy with Dr Kylie Murray
Professor Donna Heddle Prof Alex Sanmark & William Stormont
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Hear a discussion w/ Chris Harding BBC Radio 3 BBC Sounds Arts and Humanities Research Council about attitudes to death 💀🪦⚱️ in medieval poetry Harriet Soper
Viking burial Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen
Ugandan heritage sites Pauline Harding &
in the Paris and New York morgues Catriona Byers 🎧➡️
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Mahler’s music 🎼 used in the film 🎥 Death in Venice was picked by Petroc Trelawny kelly stanford talking about Dirk Bogarde We also offer you this discussion w/ Matthew Sweet bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

In the latest podcast Arts and Humanities Research Council BBC Radio 3 - Dr Sarah Jilani hears new research The Leverhulme Trust : Islamic influences on art 🎨by Rubens Dr Adam Sammut FRHistS History of Art York
& Nil Özlem Palabiyik Queen Mary University of London on Polish Ottoman musician 🎼Ali Bey
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Goats. It's not ALL about goats, but they do provide an unexpected link between writers Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehman. Virginia Woolf's shopping lists are significant too. Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 Alexandra Harris Harriet Baker on BBC Radio 3 at 10.00pm bbc.in/3PDr4oz

How a 17th century French Jesuit devised a board game to help carry out his mission in the Mohawk valley. Gemma Tidman describes Jean Pierron's version of Snakes & Ladders and reveals its surprising legacy on BBC Radio 3 at 10.45pm bbc.in/3vjLhZH Arts and Humanities Research Council QMUL Comparative Literature

Catch our PI, Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, on a fascinating panel at 22:00 tonight about the various approaches to death on BBC Radio 3 BBC Free Thinking! ⚰️🪦⚱️

Also featuring Catriona Byers Pauline Harding Harriet Soper and hosted by Chris Harding

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You will never think of Vikings the same way again after this ep of The Essay…or the decorative potential of horse penises tbf

Whenever I speak to Kerry about AI she makes me feel both smarter and much more hopeful. And now everyone gets that same opportunity in her ep of The Essay. How living at sea taught her how we need to change the way we coexist with AI

Absolutely devastating essay by @louise_brangan about the Magdalene system. I almost started to cry when she talked about 'Lucy'. That was just the beginning. Her point on remembering rightly is utterly critical. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Every night in the next few weeks you can hear one of our essays. Mine is due out on Friday, but if you are impatient you can hear it here first…

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