Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Wild Isles and nature writing
Writers Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Horatio Clare and Jacob Polley.
Busking and Billy Waters
The early 19th century street performer Billy Waters, Streetwise Opera and street ballads.
The wicked? stepmother
Ahead of Mother's Day Matthew Sweet and guests discuss new ways of looking at stepmothers.
Decadent Art
New research into ideas about decadence and connections with France, England and Iran.
Debt
As Budget day approaches, Anne McElvoy looks at debt from the South Sea Bubble to Sunak.
Emigration
Laurence Scott finds out about 'Bad Bridgets', bush-ranger history and '蜜芽传媒 Children'.
Making your voice heard
Dina Nayeri, Kirsty Sedgman, Michelle Assay and Alberta Whittle join Shahidha Bari.
Anarchism and David Graeber
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the ideas of the American anthropologist (1961-2020)
Concrete poetry
Matthew Sweet and guests on the career of poet and monk Dom Sylvester Hou茅dard (1924-92).
Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Anne McElvoy on Russian punk protest and a version of US TV's Big Bird, Bert and Ernie.
