Free Thinking Episodes Available now
What Does a Black History Curriculum Look Like?
Reports from The Runnymede Trust and The Black Curriculum call for wider history teaching.
First Encounters
How do you decipher history when there isn't anything written down?
Gambling, good leadership and economic history
Anne McElvoy looks at gambling and at lessons from past US presidents.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
The screenwriter and novelist talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting Britain in his work.
Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam
A pair of authors due to be at the Bradford Literature Festival compare notes on writing.
Rethinking the Curriculum
Sandeep Parmar, Jade Cuttle, Edith Hall & Seb Falk talk to Rana Mitter about what we teach
Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology
Shahidha Bari talks to a pair of authors about the writing life. Plus a musical monument.
Refugees
From building shelters to the language we use to discuss displacement we hear new research
Queer Bloomsbury, Stillness in art and dance
From Virginia Woolf's writings on art to dance, stillness and movement in lockdown.
The future of theatre debate
Bertie Carvel & Roy Alexander Weise are amongst Anne McElvoy's guests
