蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Marvin Gaye's What's Going On

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss what inspired Marvin Gaye's 1971 album What's Going On?

One of the key French existentialists in the 50s, how does Simone de Beauvoir read today?

Reseach into covid comics, codes in Dickens, projecting books onto hospital ceilings.

Labradors Olive and Mabel became a Covid internet hit - can we know what a dog thinks?

How do we define a war? Anne McElvoy and guests look at how language changes attitudes.

Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Hetta Howes and Mark Vernon join Matthew Sweet.

Rana Mitter talks to Professor Mary Beard, artist Ali Cherri and looks at Hogarth's art.

Tania Kovats describes her sculptures from bleached coral and concrete moulded wetsuits.

As the clocks go back, Matthew Sweet and guests host a party for time travellers.

Poet Pascale Petit, photographer Jasper Goodall, Alexandra Harris, composer Sally Beamish.