蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Victorian Streets

Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th-century city streets in our heads the right one?

Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

Rana Mitter interviews the shortlisted authors for the Wolfson Prize for history writing.

The Right to Sex is the title of Amia Srinivasan's new book. Christopher Harding hosts.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emily Shuckburgh and Joan Passey join Rana Mitter at Hay Festival.

Tangled bloodlines, executions and a big, gold inflatable thing belonging to Henry VIII.

Donne, Hamlet, mathematics and the Tudor portraits composed by Vaughan Williams.

Shahidha Bari traces the move from markings on convicts and aristos to today's body art.

Christopher Harding investigates the feminine divine with Ronald Hutton and others.

Rana Mitter looks at a new play at the National Theatre about the man who murdered Gandhi.