Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Matthew Sweet re-reads a classic of French postmodernism.
Milton: Samson Agonistes
Rana Mitter looks at the way politics, blindness and the Bible fed into this dramatic poem
The Liverpool Biennial Debate
How to reflect Liverpool's history in new artworks: Anne McElvoy hosts a discussion.
Spy Talk
From a secret Iraqi cell to new revelations of Cold War exploits. Rana Mitter hosts.
From Blackface to Beyonc茅
Hanif Abdurraqib, Dawn Walton, Adjoa Osei on black performers from jazz to the Super Bowl
Writing about Faith
Stand-up Frank Skinner and novelists Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi talk to Laurence Scott.
Churchill's Reputation
Anne McElvoy and guests on attitudes to the politician, his rhetoric and foreign policies.
Pleasure
Matthew Sweet's guests share some secrets as they ask: Is pleasure ever simple or guilty?
Frantz Fanon
Re-reading the major 20th century theorist of decolonisation
Syria: Hope and Poetry
An architect who lived in Homs during the war, a translator of Adonis and a media analyst.
