Free Thinking Episodes Episode guide
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Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding, Stella Tillyard
Anne McElvoy with sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld, artist Dale Harding, writer Stella Tillyard
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Philosophical tennis, Hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx
Matthew Sweet takes a walk around Eleanor Marx's old neighbourhood.
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From 18th-century automata to superheroes and digital living
Matthew Sweet visits the Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.
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Renzo Piano
The Italian architect talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou to the Shard
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What do you call a stranger? - The Caine Prize - NHS ideals.
Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.
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Olivia Laing, Fun 蜜芽传媒
Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA.
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The body, past and present
Beauty from the Renaissance to the present.
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The Working Lunch and Food in History
How the Victorians changed lunch. Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.
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Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas
The man who loved our trees and woods and his ideas about what they might become.
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Windrush, Forests in Art, South African Jazz
Colin Grant, Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari
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The Word For World Is Forest
Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel and discusses the Paul Foot Award.
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The Piano and Love
Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.
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Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'
Philip Dodd on the intellectual dark web with Bari Weiss, Douglas Murray and Ed Husain.
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Mark Lilla, Owen Hatherley, Gulzaar Barn
Why Mark Lilla thinks the American Left needs a rethink and Gulzaar Barn on medical trials
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The man who convinced Jimmy Carter to run for president
Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.
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Bernard-Henri L茅vy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley
Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university.
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The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning
Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy.
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American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths
Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman, and the careers picked by psychopaths.
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Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.
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Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel V谩squez and Javier Cercas
Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.
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Tacita Dean, Mountains, John Tyndall
Landscape in motion plus how mountain climbing inspired a physicist and photographers.
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The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate
Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy.
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Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch
Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.
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Jordan B Peterson
Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets a YouTube star.
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Designing the future
Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.
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John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism
Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.
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What is Speech?
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox.
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Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing.
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Out of control?
Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight, with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.
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Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars
Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.
