蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Napoleon the Gardener and Art Thief

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.

Shahidha Bari reads I Tituba, the story of the West Indian slave accused in Salem.

Matthew Sweet, Adam Scovell, Muriel Zagha and Phuong Le on the 1971 French comedy.

A novel from 1979 which uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma.