Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Transformations: Becoming a Goat, Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett on Victorian performer Ernest Boulton and Thomas Thwaites on becoming a goat
Germany: Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher, Threepenny Opera
Anne McElvoy explores Germany with Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher and Haydn Gwynne.
The Cultural Revolution
Frank Dikotter, Xiaolu Guo and Xinran discuss the Cultural Revolution with Rana Mitter.
Revolutionary thinking: Paul Mason, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Dacher Keltner
Paul Mason and Bryan and Mary Talbot discuss Louise Michel with Matthew Sweet.
Writers Writing about Love
Alain de Botton, Tahmima Anam and AL Kennedy join Anne McElvoy to talk about love in prose
Olafur Eliasson, Andrey Kurkov, Mary Dejevsky and Zinovy Zinik on Soviet Culture
Philip Dodd talks to artist Olafur Eliasson and novelist Andrey Kurkov.
Concrete: Marina Lewycka, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Lynsey Hanley
Matthew Sweet discusses home with Marina Lewycka. Plus art at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
TE Lawrence on stage, Jeremy Thorpe, Privacy
Playwright Howard Brenton and director Adrian Noble discuss dramas depicting TE Lawrence.
Sounds of Shakespeare: Landmark - The Winter's Tale
Sam West, Carol Rutter and Michael Dobson join Matthew Sweet to discuss The Winter's Tale.
Sicily, The London Library, John Hardyng's Chronicle
Anne McElvoy discusses Sicily. Plus 175 years of the London Library, with Tom Stoppard.
