Free Thinking Episodes Episode guide
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The Frieze 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 Debate Museums in the 21st Century
Gallery directors from Russia, USA and Singapore compare notes, hosted by Anne McElvoy.
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African Europeans, Fidel Castro and African leaders, WEB Du Bois
Professors Olivette Otele and Simon Hall on understanding connections in black history
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Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes.
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Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Links between biography and poetry. Telling modern Ugandan stories. With Shahidha Bari.
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Cows, farming and our view of nature
Are cows the answer to depleted soil or the problem? With farmer and author James Rebanks.
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Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020
Tales of indigenous people battling for their land; colonialism & pioneers of anthropology
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Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures
Anne McElvoy talks to Edmund Fawcett about conflicts within Conservatism.
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The impact of being multilingual
Discussion ahead of the European Day of Languages and International Translation Day.
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Get Carter
Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges.
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Family Ties and Reshaping History
From Neanderthals to Sikh warriors to the idea of weird people, three authors look at kin.
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The Mayflower and Native American history
Sarah Churchwell, Kathryn Napier Gray and Lauren Working with Eleanor Barraclough.
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Piranesi and disturbing archecture
Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, is one of Matthew Sweet's guests.
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Wole Soyinka's Writing
Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike and Oladipo Agboluaje discuss Wole Soyinka's life and work.
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Bernard-Henri L茅vy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
How philosophy helps us understand the world reshaped by Covid-19. Shahidha Bari presents.
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Dada and the power of nonsense
A project to reimagine the Dada arts movement now, and reflections on satire and nonsense.
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Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland
Anne Applebaum, and the lives of Ingrid Bergman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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Nature Writing
From Gilbert White to lockdown blogs - why we need to spend more time in nature.
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Magic
Matthew Sweet and guests conjure a conversation about the importance and appeal of magic
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The consolation of philosophy and stories
Matthew Sweet talks to Kylie Murray, Prof Seth Lerer and former Bishop Richard Holloway.
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What Does a Black History Curriculum Look Like?
Reports from The Runnymede Trust and The Black Curriculum call for wider history teaching.
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First Encounters
How do you decipher history when there isn't anything written down?
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Gambling, good leadership and economic history
Anne McElvoy looks at gambling and at lessons from past US presidents.
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
The screenwriter and novelist talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting Britain in his work.
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Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam
A pair of authors due to be at the Bradford Literature Festival compare notes on writing.
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Rethinking the Curriculum
Sandeep Parmar, Jade Cuttle, Edith Hall & Seb Falk talk to Rana Mitter about what we teach
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Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology
Shahidha Bari talks to a pair of authors about the writing life. Plus a musical monument.
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Refugees
From building shelters to the language we use to discuss displacement we hear new research
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Queer Bloomsbury, Stillness in art and dance
From Virginia Woolf's writings on art to dance, stillness and movement in lockdown.
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The future of theatre debate
Bertie Carvel & Roy Alexander Weise are amongst Anne McElvoy's guests
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Failure and female friendship
Lara Feigel, Mich猫le Roberts and New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza with Shahidha Bari.
