#BBCFreeThinking

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

From handsome prince to a ghost behind glass, Andrew’s face tells the story of his decline | Fay Bound-Alberti Royals have always prized their images as ways to assert their lineage and authority. Now this pathetic photo will define the former prince, says historian Fay Bound-Alberti

What is monarchy but metaphor? @fayboundalberti.bsky.social hyper-astute on its face and what it faces. #BBCFreeThinking beckons, I hope. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... NB excellent #mugshot imagery via @theguardian.com #Design.

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

1 month ago

Free Thinking - Is Might Right? - BBC Sounds The history of an idea that's shaped political philosophy, from Plato to Carl Schmitt.

Bookmark &/or download. Might come in handy, right? #seewhatIdidthere #gawdelpus
Play to your local autocrat to show them where they're going wrong. #BBCFreeThinking @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @leaypi.bsky.social #MargaretMacMillan #HugoDrocho #AngieHobbs #RefundTheBBC
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Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

3 months ago

Hoping @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social & co on #BBCFreeThinking get a second crack at @rutgerbregman.com #ReithLectures. This, on Morality www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... needs something in depth rather than combative, like The Moral Maze.

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

3 months ago

Still reeling from the quality of discussion in #BBCFreeThinking. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @rupertread.bsky.social Selina Todd, Clare Jackson, Jake Subryan Richards on @rutgerbregman.com. Enjoy it while you can: it's later than you think. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

7 months ago

See also #DavidRunciman 's superb history of 1945, the how, what & what-ifs of what shaped British politics and social history over the last 80 years. #Postwar still on #BBCSounds & omnibussing on Friday nights in lieu of #BBCFreeThinking during the summer www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

8 months ago

Helped in this matter by catching up on what constitutes #friendship : uplifting! #BBCRadio4 #BBCFreeThinking @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #WhenYoureDownAndTroubled

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

9 months ago

Free Thinking - Power: A User's Guide - BBC Sounds From the Hay Festival, Matthew Sweet discusses the many forms of political power.

Am absolutely here for idealogues spouting bloated populist political positions being skewered by philosophers weilding swords of informed sense & sensibility @hayfestival.bsky.social. (Wish #BBCFreeThinking #BBCSounds were Blueskying with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social.) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

9 months ago

Free Thinking - Wolves - BBC Sounds How wolves shape our world.

Wasn't expecting much of a hit from this #BBCFreeThinking but, well, that'll teach me! Company of #Wolves. #ADelicateBalance #rewilding #TrophicCascade #rethinking. @shahidhabari.bsky.social
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Laura Phillips

@lauraphillips.bsky.social

10 months ago

Get your servant to peel you a grape and listen to last night's #BBCFreeThinking on Decadence and Declinism with @coldwarsteve @JaneDesmarais @timothy_stanley @NevilleMorley & Louisa Buck https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002b77w

Get your servant to peel you a grape and listen to last night's #BBCFreeThinking on Decadence and Declinism with @coldwarsteve @JaneDesmarais @timothy_stanley @NevilleMorley & Louisa Buck www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

10 months ago

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Essex Looking beyond the stereotypes of the county that's often described as 'much maligned'.

A couple of discussions from #BBCFreeThinking where glimpses of the county's magical thinking can be had. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

11 months ago

Having excised speech from its schedule, bizarrely #BBCRadio3 hasn't let its #NewGenerationThinkers go to #BBCRadio4 alongside #BBCFreeThinking where their rather excellent essays would sit perfectly... This, on the radio essay & #Adorno is as good as any #APointOfView. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

1 year ago

#GetCarter is on the tellybox tonight #BBCTwo and this #BBCFreeThinking is a genuinely fascinating discussion with, among others, its director, about its provenance. A really vital, useful companion, pre- or post-watching. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

1 year ago

Free Thinking - Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking - BBC Sounds Timandra Harkness, Ekow Eshun, Sophie Grace Chappell, Richard Bett and Stephen Bush.

Ever changed your mind? You could. You should. Especially on here. Try it #BBCFreeThinking along with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social #EkowEshun @stephenkb.bsky.social #SophieGraceChappell @timandraharkness.bsky.social #ProfRichardBett. They did. I did.
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Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

1 year ago

. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Might the influence of this excellent #BBCFreeThinking www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... be wider & deeper than we ever thought possible?

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

1 year ago

Free Thinking - Repetition - BBC Sounds Matthew Sweet and guests discuss routine, repetition and our sense of time

You should listen to this again. For a different result. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social #BBCFreeThinking
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Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

1 year ago

Free Thinking - Jordan B Peterson - BBC Sounds Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets a YouTube star.

Props to the much missed Philip Dodd for his shock at & doubling down on Peterson's sheer intellectual vacuity here. #BBCFreeThinking www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Another Cinna

@anothercinna.bsky.social

1 year ago

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, How we think about evil Matthew Sweet and guests pick up from this year's Reith lectures and look at ideas of evil

Never timelier #BBCFreeThinking on How Do We Think About Evil. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @jacksymes.bsky.social @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social @oliverscottcurry.bsky.social & @zrinka.bsky.social on banality, best lines & the #Stanford buzz. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Laura Phillips

@lauraphillips.bsky.social

1 year ago

Free Thinking - Milton and our modern world - BBC Sounds It is 350 years since the death of Milton. We discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Political upheaval,the role of the #press+#freespeech, #divorce, the right of people to hold authority to account+a defence of regicide: the #poet #JohnMilton of #ParadiseLost fame thought+wrote about all of these issues.
Only the best conversations at #BBCFreeThinking.