Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Sir Thomas Browne and Adventures in Human Beings
Matthew Sweet and guests talk about the doctors in the 17th and the 21st centuries.
Julian Barnes, Bapsi Sidhwa, light-inspired poetry
With Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes and Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa.
Carol Ann Duffy's Everyman, Clive James
Philip Dodd reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman.
Alberto Manguel, Alice in Wonderland, Fashionable Victorian Writers
Alberto Manguel talks to Matthew Sweet about curiosity and a lifetime of reading.
English Civil War, Indigenous Australia
Anne McElvoy hears how a mid-1970s play might cast light on today's political landscape.
Caryl Phillips, Stanley Wells, Ah, Wilderness!
Including Caryl Phillips, Shakespearean actors, South African protests and Ah, Wilderness!
What does Global Shakespeare Mean?
Philip Dodd asks what we understand Shakespeare to mean around the world.
Landmark: The Tin Drum
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss Gunter Grass's 1959 novel The Tin Drum.
Violence in Culture
Frances Fyfield, Richard Bessel, Peter Stanford and Mayura Deshpande join Philip Dodd.
Process: Mexico in Words, Carmen Disruption, Christopher Doyle
Matthew Sweet with Francisco Goldman, Valeria Luiselli, Simon Stephens, Christopher Doyle.
