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This year we examine the fast-changing relationship between the individual and the crowd.
Elif Batuman, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kamila Shamsie, Jesmyn Ward...
From the urge to fight and Mrs Noah to Uncanny objects and mountain photography...
Sunday 17 June 2018, 6.30pm to 8.50pm at the York Festival of Ideas
Free Thinking Festival 2017: The Speed of Life
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From the Tale of Genjii to Godzilla, Kenzaburo Oe to Yoko Tawada …
Key films, books, TV, plays, art: 1001 Nights - 2001 A Space Odyssey, Jane Austen - Jaws
Peter Singer, Cordelia Fine, Garry Kasparov, AI and Algorithmns, Tim O’Reilly.
Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson
Discussions/interviews: Slavoj Zizek, Xinran, Ivan Klima, Claudia Rankine, Pankaj Mishra
Will Hutton, Lucy O’Brien, Richard Sennett on how topics are taught + campus free speech?
Dorothy Bohm, Edward Burtynsky, Sean Scully, Dada, Elizabeth Price, Edmund de Waal
Writing from around the world: fact, fiction, key authors, classics & contemporary voices
Leading scholars, insights from actors and directors and new research into the Bard.
Could more of us benefit from a healthy dose of solitude?
Stephen Reicher reveals that crowd psychology is more nuanced than people think.
A guide to successful stand-up from some of the best in the business.
With global population on the rise, could having kids be your biggest moral mistake?
From satire and the circus, to gangs and 'speaking truth to power'
From breastfeeding to fasting, resisting tyranny to murder & dining with a nightmare...
The mariner’s astrolabe; faith in food; Sherlock Holmes; the phone & a cold war relic...
From aubergines to frostbite via finger-counting.
Listen to past editions from the extensive Night Waves archive.
Somalian writer & former Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses her book 'Nomad'.
Gulzaar Barn considers the role and payment of volunteers taking part in clinical trials.
New Generation Thinker Preti Taneja with Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy.
Lisa Mullen on the secret life of bric a brac
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