Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Gut instinct
From gut feelings in your stomach to the language of disgust. Matthew Sweet hosts.
Diva
As the V&A opens an exhibition about performers, Naomi Paxton discusses what makes a diva.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The book of the Sturm und Drang generation. Anne McElvoy explores the ideas behind it.
The Kitchen: art, film, life
Sarah Kent, Marianne Hem Eriksen, Melanie Williams and Angela Hui join Matthew Sweet.
Portraits
The NPG re-opens. A look at portraiture in art, photography, documentary and oral history.
Ideas about health
Gavin Francis on Thomas Browne, Polly Morland on John Berger, Matt Smith on mental health
Adam Smith
From the East India Company to Silicon Valley: the big ideas in his tercentennial year.
Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
Novelist R F Kuang, Dr Kerry McInerney, Ghislaine Boddington and MIT's Daron Acemoglu.
Michel Piccoli
Matthew Sweet on the French actor who worked with Bu帽uel, Varda, Ferreri and Godard.
Nature Memoirs
Rana Mitter looks at fens, flatlands, wild swimming and a little-changed Bulgarian valley.
