🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

"I want to test, share, and develop ideas and take them beyond the academy." @BeccaVoelcker on her research and ambitions in her new role as one of this year's New Generation Thinkers gold.ac.uk/news/becca-voe…

Among the 10 "new generation thinkers" selected by the BBC and Arts and Humanities Research Council for media training and appearances on BBC Radio 4 are two philosophers... dailynous.com/2024/05/16/two…

New Generation Thinker Arts and Humanities Research Council Emily Baughan The University of Sheffield has already contributed to BBC Woman's Hour 📻 BBC Radio 4 with her research on the history of childcare 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

We'll be hearing more from @JonathanEgid King's College London as we introduce him as a 2024 New Generation Thinker Arts and Humanities Research Council BBC Radio 4 BBC Sounds🥳

We like intellectuals

We discussed intellectual vices, service with a smile 😃and "performing" at work and whether our guests were glass half full or empty people 🥃in Free Thinking BBC Radio 4 w/ anne mcelvoy Quassim Cassam Margaret Heffernan Isabel Oakeshott Jaz Sir Richard Evans 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

Hear Jaz explain her research in the final third of this Free Thinking episode BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

On tonight's BBC Free Thinking we read America through the movies - Civil War & Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Cautionary tales? Alarmist fantasies? What do you think? I can share your points with Stephen Bush Kate Maltby Dr Sarah Jilani & Keith Shiri live at 9 on BBC Radio 4.

Very much enjoyed this chat last night with Kate Maltby Keith Shiri & Stephen Bush with Matthew Sweet leading the charge — on blockbusters, the depiction of civil wars, & a season of African cinemas on at BFI now! 🌍🎞️Listen here ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Take a breath from hurly burly of elex debate & listen to our ⁦BBC Free Thinking⁩ exploration at 9 pm R 4 - on the politics and culture of dividing us into generations. Great cast inc GenZ, millennial, Gen X (me) and prod Luke Mulhall (a Grunge graduate). Also ⁦BBC Sounds⁩

Did William the Conqueror cause the housing crisis? Did a volcano dethrone Cleopatra? Long & short, micro & macro views of history on BBC Free Thinking with Alison Light Zeinab Badawi Peter Frankopan Bronwen Maddox Steve Rosenberg - live at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Prof Tom Simpson on BBC Free Thinking, discussing global instability. "Actors are challenging the US-led order established after Bretton Woods. The Russian invasion of Ukraine tests American power, and others may seek to capitalise on this shift." 🎧 ow.ly/Fpwx50Sj3II

High-stakes voting now and in 1789 on ‘The Long View’ Really enjoyed recording this with Jonathan Freedland (a voice I knew so well) and Emile Chabal (also: emile-chabal.bsky.social). Hats off to Luke Mulhall for all his work and editing through my dyslexic brain. Merci à tous ! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

TONIGHT at 21:00, to celebrate the summer solstice, I will be LIVE on BBC Free Thinking to talk about Bergson's philosophy of durée with Matthew Sweet bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Need a new podcast?BBC Free Thinking’s Arts & Ideas a is great listen. Clever, friendly Brits philosophising on escapism, time and the history of pranks. It’s like having a salon in my ears

I am absolutely delighted to see BBC Free Thinking returning to BBC Radio 4. I still miss its R3 version & it won’t coax me away from Friday night junk TV like Rings of Power🙂. But with eg anne mcelvoy & Matthew Sweet, it will remain unmissable radio bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Now here is BBC Free Thinking BBC Radio 4 at its cornucopiac best. Matthew Sweet, with Roger Luckhurst Michael Crick Helen Castor David Edmonds Kate Maltby & The Warburg Library (where I spent many pre-internet PhD hours on goddess cults in the early 80s 🙂) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Signs, symbols and secrets on BBC Free Thinking tonight - from Raphael's Ostrich to Pepe the Frog. Marianna Spring Prof Lisa Bortolotti Constantine Sandis sort the esoteric from the exoteric. Live on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

another wide-ranging episode of BBC Free Thinking BBC Radio 4 on the anthropology, politics & theology of the gift. A topic that needs a refresh—& with many traps. Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 introduces @ESOldfield @Rhodri_H_Davies Gerald Moore, Sophie Scott-Brown bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…