New Generation Thinkers on the 2018 Free Thinking festival theme of The One and the Many
The Free Thinking Essay homepage
A week-long exploration of why attention has become a major social concern.
Are You Paying Attention? homepage
The changes brought to the people and landscape of the Scottish Highlands.
New Ways through the Glens homepage
Writer John Walsh examines the male desire to stand out, sartorially and in attitude
Walking The Lobster homepage
Five Scottish women writers give different takes on the novels and life of Muriel Spark
All Miss Brodie's Girls homepage
Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.
Looking Good homepage
Five essays on the subject of forgetting
Forgetting homepage
Five stories about love dramatized from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses homepage
Writers reflect on how particular rocks shape landscapes and people over time.
Cornerstones homepage
Writers who have a passionate connection with a building celebrate British architecture.
Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass homepage
Author and broadcaster David Hepworth reflects on pop music's struggles with authenticity.
Nothing Is Real - Pop's Struggle with Authenticity homepage
Five radio producers hijack The Essay for a mini-series of Radio 3's Between the Ears
Between the Essays homepage
Ian Sansom resumes his imaginary correspondences with the world's great writers.
More Letters to Writers homepage
Authors, artists and historians describe works by inspirational and visionary artists
Ten Artists that Shook the World homepage
Fiona Stafford explores our relationship with some more of the UK's best-known flowers.
The Meaning of Flowers - Series 2 homepage
Five creative individuals examine their own encounters with opera as an art form
Stories That Sing homepage
Series of essays exploring the significance of memory
The Strangeness of Memory homepage
Why does stuff have such an emotional hold on us? Why can't we just let it go?
Stuff Happens homepage
Poet Don Paterson reflects on five poems he wishes he had written
Five Poems I Wish I Had Written homepage
Michael Goldfarb returns to his cab driving and acting days in 1970s New York
Trip Sheets 2 - An Actor's Life homepage
Milton's epic poem comes under the microscope 350 years after its publication
Paradise Lost homepage
Programmes reflecting on the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India and Pakistan
The Culture of Partition homepage
Exploring significant and enduring gay partnerships among important figures in the arts.
The Love that Wrote Its Name homepage
From the York Festival of Ideas, talks given by the 2017 cohort of New Generation Thinkers
New Generation Thinkers 2017 homepage
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art
Minds at War: Series 4 homepage
Five writers offer their thoughts on how to write a book
Hay Essays: How to Write a Book homepage
Writer Polly Coles explores what makes a true Venetian.
True Venetian homepage
Discussions about Martin Luther and other people who brought about the Reformation
Luther's Reformation Gang homepage
Series of reflections about writing as one becomes older
Late Style homepage
Author Andrew Martin celebrates social phenomena that are just about surviving
Hanging On homepage
