蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Archiving, curating and digging for data

Behind the scenes at the Hepworth Wakefield, the Barbican and the Alan Turing Institute.

Two weavers of fantastical fiction sift through myths with Matthew Sweet.

American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel talks mushrooms, therapy and Adrienne Rich.

Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter.

Patience Agbabi's novel time-travels back to 18th-century London. So do we.

Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland with historians and writers.

Rector Giles Fraser tells Matthew Sweet how a crisis led to discovering his Jewish roots.

Shahidha Bari finds out how to use the theory of knowledge to address real-world problems.

Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar and Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.

Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray and Emma Whipday find examples in different dramas.