Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Anger
Philip Dodd considers rage in the politics of the US and India.
Neil Jordan, the Lonely City, Contemporary Cities
Film director Neil Jordan on writing fiction. Olivia Laing explores loneliness.
Russian Culture Inwards and Outwards
Anne McElvoy discusses Russian Eurasianism, the Soviet Union and Africa, and Eisenstein.
Karl Ove Knausgard, Ingrid Carlberg, Dorthe Nors on Nordic Culture
Karl Ove Knausgard talks to Philip Dodd in a programme exploring Scandinavia today.
Religion Without Belief: Stephen Batchelor, Kader Abdolah, Linda Woodhead
Rana Mitter discusses a translation of the Qur'an and atheism in the UK and ancient Greece
Utopianism in Politics
Anne McElvoy chairs a debate on realism and utopianism in politics and history.
Delacroix, Petain, de Gaulle, Jonathan Lynn
Jonathan Lynn talks about his new play exploring Petain's relationship with de Gaulle.
Hieronymus Bosch Anniversary
Tom Shakespeare and Peter Greenaway join Matthew Sweet to discuss Hieronymus Bosch.
Screaming Lord Sutch on Stage, Margaret MacMillan
Playwright James Graham discusses his new comedy, which puts Screaming Lord Sutch on stage
Dadaism, The Invisible Present, National Treasures
Including Dadaism, an exhibition about time, and the celebrity as a 'national treasure'.
