Four Thought
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Four Thought
Series of thought-provoking talks in which the speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect culture and society
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What I've Learned from Four Thought
In the final episode of Four Thought, Sheila Cook reflects on what she has learned from producing it for eleven years.
Sheila, who left the BBC...
Life Without Chilli
Three years on from her first appearance on Four Thought, Dr. Dina Rezk returns to Four Thought. Her first talk was about the shocking and unexpected...
Care to Care
Farrah Jarral explains why she believes we need to put care at the centre of our society.
Sharing a story about how her beloved grandmother's li...
Turning to Art
Ted Harrison argues that only art can truly capture the essence of spirituality.
Ted is a former journalist who, close to turning sixty, decided...
Stand Up for Irish Travellers
Martin Warde is the first Irish Traveller to become a professional comedian. In this talk he recounts his early years travelling before his family set...
I'm not having children to save the planet
Sarah Williams always wanted to become a mum. But the more she learnt about the climate crisis, the more she questioned her decision. In this talk Sar...
Life after 'life-changing'
Martin Hibbert's life changed forever in 2017. He survived the Manchester Arena bomb but was left with life-changing injuries. Now a wheelchair user,...
I love gaming, but gaming doesn't always love me
Meg Sunshine, a 21 year old professional gamer is dedicated to becoming one of the best in the industry. Gaming is her life. But her journey has not b...
Moral Animals
Philosopher Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert describes a change in how philosophers are beginning to think about the moral capacity of animals, and asks us t...
On Regret
Author Rachel Genn describes her fascination with regret. Rachel tells stories of regret, beginning in her earliest childhood. “An early adopter of re...
After a Parent Dies by Suicide
Anna Wardley argues that we should better support children whose parents kill themselves.
Beginning her talk in the dark waters of the English C...
Piracy on the Page
Author Joe Nutt argues we need to fight back against what he calls 'linguistic piracy'.
Joe is concerned that activists are challenging the comm...
From Care to Cambridge
Kasmira Kincaid opens up about the challenges of her childhood and her experiences of the care system. Despite her many personal challenges Kasmira fo...
Baldness, Beauty and Me
After an incident at school which shattered Lizi Jackson-Barrett’s confidence in her appearance, she spent much of her life chasing what society think...
From Bradford with Love
Crime writer Amit Dhand shares his experiences of growing up in Bradford in the 1980s. His family actively integrated with the local community.
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What I learnt from Reality TV
Former Love Island contestant Malin Andersson reflects on how reality TV changed her outlook on life and her relationship with social media. In an hon...
A Friendship
Novelist Richard Owain Roberts shares a story about a friendship.
Producer: Giles Edwards
Who Tells the Story?
Chloe Juliette welcomes the movement for those with 'lived experience' of public services to share their stories, but says more stories are needed.
Meeting Up
Laura Simpson argues that online meetings have good for individuals and companies, and that we should be wary of returning to the status quo.
Th...
Somewhere, not Nowhere
Jonathan Evershed argues that we should re-imagine how we think of the Irish Sea.
Jonathan is a political anthropologist who has been studying t...
Asking the right questions about crime
Criminologist Dr Laura Bui wants us to ask the right questions when it comes to crime. The popular genre of ‘true crime’ may be popular but is it help...
Cities made for our mental health
Dr Layla McCay asks us to think again about how our buildings and towns can both benefit and harm our mental health.
As a trained psychiatrist a...
Making Time
Watchmaker Rebecca Struthers shares her passion for the art and science of horology. She warns that this traditional skill and its allied trades to ma...
Grief: A Practical Guide
James Helm gives a practical guide to dealing with grief and sudden single parenthood. Following the early death of his wife Charlotte, he found himse...
Valuing Care
Ai-jen Poo argues that we should all value caring, and carers.
Ai-jen, a MacArthur Fellow, is Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance...
Brain Matters
Beth Stevens talks about the brain cells most people have never heard of, and suggests what they might have to teach us.
Beth is a neuroscientis...
Painting a different history
Tara Munroe reveals what she learned when she rescued some badly damaged paintings which were due to be thrown out.
Tara is an arts curator and...
Prison Sentence
Philippa Greer discusses the imprisonment of people convicted of genocide.
Philippa is a human rights lawyer who has worked around the world. In...
The Power of Doubt
Nicola Reindorp, who once doubted her own abilities to be a CEO, says we should rehabilitate doubt as a strength rather than a weakness in leaders. "...
Leaving Your Homeland
Eva Hnizdo reflects on the impulses which drive people to emigrate - or not, drawing on her Czech Jewish family's experience of the Holocaust and her...
Freedom Is a Must
Robyn Travis believes that labelling children as criminals is counterproductive in the fight against violence. He says they need to be freed from the...
And They Said We'd Be Glowing
Laura Dockrill describes her frightening experience of post partum psychosis after giving birth to her son. She calls for a wider conversation about r...
Mum... again
Angela Frazer-Wicks tells her extraordinary story of being a mother.
Years ago, Angela's sons were taken into care and adopted, and in this powe...
Who Owns Space?
Simon Morden argues that we should resist the privatisation of space.
Simon is a scientist and science fiction writer, and in this talk he refle...
And His Wife
Jessica Barker argues that we should rediscover overlooked sculptures of women.
She didn't know it at the time, but as a child Jessica spent par...
200 Days
Steven Dowd's life changed in an instant one spring morning in 2016. In this inspiring talk, Steven describes what happened, and how a promise to his...
Fear of Finance
Professor Atul Shah draws on his background as a Jain to argue that we need a healthier relationship with finance: people often feel afraid of money m...
What is it to Hear?
Joe Friedman, who grew up with deaf parents, reflects on what it means to hear. As a young psychotherapist, treating one particularly challenging clie...
The Tyranny of Positivity
Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre argues against the tyranny of positivity which forms part of a culture of "performative wellness", which she says sees illness...
The Power of Classical Music
Leon Bosch reflects on the power of classical music to transform lives, beginning with his own. He overcame the obstacles of racism in apartheid era S...