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Luke Mulhall retweeted
Fantastic discussion on 'Might is Right' with @lea_ypi, @drangiehobbs, Margaret MacMillan and the irrepressible @DrMatthewSweet on @BBCFreeThinking last Friday night!💥
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And here is the link to our lively discussion of the history of the idea that Might is Right @BBCFreethinking with @DrMatthewSweet, @HDrochon, Margaret MacMillan and @lea_ypi, produced by @ilov77: bit.ly/3ZnGUYN
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I'm on @BBCRadio4's The Long View at 9am tomorrow morning, talking to @Freedland and guests @BBCTomSymonds & @M_Sumption about small boats and cross-channel migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023dp…
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1 of the best episodes of @BBCFreeThinking this season. I read the story in 1978 on the advice of Terry Wade, who taught me Dostoevsky🙂. Unforgettable. Thanks to @DrMatthewSweet @unamccormack @NaomiAllthenews @esmiejp Kevan Manwaring & Sophie Scott Brown
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I'm delighted that more people will have a chance to experience the childlike wonder of the #Totoro stage adaptation at @BarbicanCentre!
Listen to our conversation about the magic of the Studio Ghibli film on @BBCRadio3
With #Totoro gearing up for another run @BarbicanCentre, our special episode of @BBCFreeThinking is on Radio 3 again tonight at 10pm: playwright Tom Morton-Smith, #Miyazaki experts @MichaelJLeader & Shiro Yoshioka, and New Generation Thinker @XineYaoPhD bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cgt…
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Luke Mulhall retweeted
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/p0g3gq…
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Luke Mulhall retweeted
Radio treat: Listen to Rachael, Nikhil Krishnan, Mark Rowe and @DavidEdmonds100 discuss Oxford Philosophy tonight on @BBCFreeThinking bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nh9…
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Tonight on @BBCFreeThinking we're talking Oxford philosophy with @DavidEdmonds100, Rachael Wiseman (@parenthesis_in), Nikhil Krishnan & Mark Rowe. 10pm on @BBCRadio3. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nh9…. Get yourself in the mood with #JonathanMiller & @JohnCleese: youtube.com/watch?v=qUvf3fOm…
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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?
@drchrisharding on mid-century Oxford philosophy w/ @DavidEdmonds100 @parenthesis_in Mark Rowe Nikhal Krishnan @BBCRadio3 10pm
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Luke Mulhall retweeted
Tune in to @BBCInOurTime at 9am tomorrow to hear Melvyn Bragg discuss Elizabeth Anscombe with Rachel Wiseman, Roger Teichmann, and yours truly.
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Stare into this Houedardian typestract and click the link on Thursday at 10pm. @BBCFreeThinking @BBCRadio3 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jcv…
That was fun! Great to meet @DrMatthewSweet and talk Dom Sylvester Houedard and cosmic typewriters for an episode of @BBCFreeThinking with Rey, Charles, and Nicola (@concretepoet) who knows even more about Tantric Buddhism that I thought
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Catholic mysticism - the Beat scene - Tantra - Vatican II - typewriters - chance & randomness in art - @DrMatthewSweet discusses the work of Dom Sylvester Houédard, Dominican monk & concrete poet w/ @concretepoet @Gregchthomas Rey Conquer & Charles Verey
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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.
This should be fun. I'm going on @BBCFreeThinking on Friday along with @concretepoet, Rey Conquer & Charles Verey to talk about the life & work of Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924-92), Benedictine monk, concrete poet, theologian and general zeitgeist wrangler. Broadcast 2 March 👀
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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/ @DrMatthewSweet @NaomiAllthenews, @unamccormack + memories from @GeorgeTakei bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ff4…
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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 @ShahidhaBari tonight, with @stella_sandford @dantaylor42 Helen Cowie and Katherine Rundell @BBCRadio3 at 10 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fx1…
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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.
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"It's politics Jim, but not as we know it" @DrMatthewSweet explores the post Capitalist, post scarcity but apparently v militarised utopianism of Star Trek w/ @GeorgeTakei @NaomiAllthenews @unamccormack @AnarresProject's Joseph Orosco @BBCRadio3 @ 10 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ff4…
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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 @DafyddMDaniel @KMMitcheson & Ruth Harris @BBCRadio3 @ 10 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001f61…
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Luke Mulhall retweeted
My word that was fun. Huge thanks to @DrMatthewSweet @Stevevolkwriter @lesleyamanning @ilov77 and @kte75 for a chilling conversation. Has anyone checked on @ReeceShearsmith ?
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Luke Mulhall retweeted
Cuddly woodland creature or the spirit of death? @drchrisharding on #Ghibli classic My Neighbour Totoro with @XineYaoPhD @tommortonsmith @MichaelJLeader & Shiro Yoshioka. Postwar Japanese society, visionary politics, Disney, plushies. @BBCRadio3 at 10 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cgt…
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