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One of the best hours I’ve spent in a studio. Tonight’s BBC Free Thinking on the paradoxically canonical but forgotten novelist John Cowper Powys. With Margaret Drabble, John Gray, Iain Sinclair and @bardicacademic. A world class cast! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Like several of Powys's great novels, there's a longer version of last night's programme available. But you don't need to comb through second hand bookshops to find it, it's here bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d…

Cuddly woodland creature or the spirit of death? Chris Harding (now at Bsky) on #Ghibli classic My Neighbour Totoro with Dr. Xine Yao @xineyaophd.bsky.social @tommortonsmith Michael Leader & Shiro Yoshioka. Postwar Japanese society, visionary politics, Disney, plushies. BBC Radio 3 at 10 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

My word that was fun. Huge thanks to Matthew Sweet Stephen Volk Lesley Manning Luke Mulhall and Kate Egan - now at kte75.bsky.social for a chilling conversation. Has anyone checked on This is NOT ?

If you stare into the abyss for long enough, does the abyss begin to stare into you? Rana Mitter on three theorists of inwardness and the spiritual life tonight: St Teresa, Vivekananda, Nietzsche w Dafydd Mills Daniel Katrina Mitcheson & Ruth Harris BBC Radio 3 @ 10 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

"It's politics Jim, but not as we know it" Matthew Sweet explores the post Capitalist, post scarcity but apparently v militarised utopianism of Star Trek w/ George Takei Naomi Alderman Dr Una McCormack Anarres Project for Alternative Futures's Joseph Orosco BBC Radio 3 @ 10 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Seriously, I sent our producer Luke my draft of the script and said "obviously I won't be doing this incredibly stupid opener" and... well, have a listen.

Are animals a human invention? What is a lama like? Do plants have sex? Was Amelia Earhart eaten by crabs? Just some of the questions posed by Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 tonight, with Stella Sandford Dan Taylor Helen Cowie and Katherine Rundell BBC Radio 3 at 10 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

In Star Trek, where is the money? Is it post-capitalist? How does work work? And what did it say about the US? A brill Free Thinking on the politics & economics of the series, w/ Matthew Sweet Naomi Alderman, Dr Una McCormack + memories from George Takei bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

If ever there was an ecumenical free thinker it was Dom Sylvester. Looking forward to talking about the non and the non non with these interesting thinkers tomorrow.

Stare into this Houedardian typestract and click the link on Thursday at 10pm. BBC Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Catholic mysticism - the Beat scene - Tantra - Vatican II - typewriters - chance & randomness in art - Matthew Sweet discusses the work of Dom Sylvester Houédard, Dominican monk & concrete poet w/ Nicola Simpson Greg Thomas/Oo Press Rey Conquer & Charles Verey bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f…

Tune in to In Our Time at 9am tomorrow to hear Melvyn Bragg discuss Elizabeth Anscombe with Rachel Wiseman, Roger Teichmann, and yours truly. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Radio treat: Listen to Rachael, Nikhil Krishnan, Mark Rowe and David Edmonds discuss Oxford Philosophy tonight on BBC Free Thinking bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Tonight on BBC Free Thinking we're talking Oxford philosophy with David Edmonds, Rachael Wiseman (InParenthesis), Nikhil Krishnan & Mark Rowe. 10pm on BBC Radio 3. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…. Get yourself in the mood with #JonathanMiller & John Cleese: youtube.com/watch?v=qUvf3f…

Is that a goldfinch or a woodpecker? What have you done if you've shot the wrong donkey? What would be a good life for a squirrel with claws of a crab? Chris Harding (now at Bsky) on mid-century Oxford philosophy w/ David Edmonds InParenthesis Mark Rowe Nikhal Krishnan BBC Radio 3 10pm

Absolute pleasure talking to Tom Bullough and Zoe Skoulding about writing Wales. My first go on the presenter end of the mic and everyone was so kind and patient. Give it a listen bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

I'm delighted that more people will have a chance to experience the childlike wonder of the #Totoro stage adaptation at Barbican Centre! Listen to our conversation about the magic of the Studio Ghibli film on BBC Radio 3

1 of the best episodes of BBC Free Thinking this season. I read the story in 1978 on the advice of Terry Wade, who taught me Dostoevsky🙂. Unforgettable. Thanks to Matthew Sweet Dr Una McCormack Naomi Alderman Esmie 💫🪐 Kevan Manwaring & Sophie Scott Brown bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

I'm on BBC Radio 4's The Long View at 9am tomorrow morning, talking to Jonathan Freedland and guests Tom Symonds & Madeleine Sumption about small boats and cross-channel migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…