Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Essay writing, Tim Winton
Anne McElvoy looks at the resurgence of non-fiction writing and the essay as a form.
Writers and their notebooks
Lawrence Norfolk, AS Byatt, Wendy Cope, Bidisha and David Mitchell on writers' notebooks.
John Clare, Jimmy Wales and the Right to be Forgotten, Borowczyk Retrospective
Iain Sinclair talks to Matthew Sweet about a walk to mark John Clare's death 150 years ago
Nick Payne's Incognito, Penny Dreadful on TV, Helen McCarthy and Baroness Neville-Jones on Female Diplomats
Anne McElvoy talks about the brain to Nick Payne; Victorian Gothic on TV in Penny Dreadful
Ivan Klima, the East-West divide in Europe, Science Fiction in Theatre
Philip Dodd talks to Czech novelist Ivan Klima and asks if Europe always needs an East.
Godzilla and Hayao Miyazaki, Simon Armitage's version of The Iliad
Matthew Sweet reviews Godzilla and The Wind Rises, plus Lily Cole in The Last Days of Troy
Representing cities - in politics and plays
Anne McElvoy looks at how cities are represented in politics and in theatre.
Eleanor Marx, David Henry Hwang
Philip Dodd meets playwright David Henry Hwang, plus Rachel Holmes discusses Eleanor Marx.
Charles Kingsley's Water Babies, Edward St Aubyn
Matthew Sweet discusses Charles Kingsley and is joined by writer Edward St Aubyn.
Thom Gunn's Poetry, Michael Cunningham
Samira Ahmed discusses the poems of Thom Gunn, who died in 2004.
