Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Depicting Disability
The history of disabled people鈥檚 political activism, to portrayals in fiction & at courts.
War in fact and fiction
Historians Margaret McMillan and Rob Johnson. Novelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Mia Couto
Audiences
A director, event programmer and theatre & dance historians on making work without a crowd
Individualism and Community
From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA to carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts
City Life, estate living and lockdown
Matthew Sweet and guests on how Covid has changed our cities.
The Writing of Aim茅 C茅saire
From n茅gritude and his Discourse on Colonialism to his long inventive and punning poetry.
2020 Polari Prize winners
Shahidha Bari looks at some of the best recent LGBTQ+ writing and photography.
Seances and Science
A Croydon poltergeist and artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale and Simon Grant.
Derrida and post truth
Matthew Sweet asks biographer Peter Salmon about Derrida's influence today
Daljit Nagra & Val McDermid; Reynard the Fox
A poet and a crime writer compare notes; plus, lessons for now from a medieval foxy fable
