Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Does Growth Matter?
Is the economic future all about growth? Danny Dorling discusses Slowdown.
Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture
Lisa Mullen, Caroline Frost and historian & podcast host Greg Jenner join Matthew Sweet.
Advertising, Renaissance Art and Artemisia Gentileschi
Historians Catherine Fletcher, Selina Todd and art critic Jonathan Jones join Rana Mitter.
Fighting Women
Maaza Mengiste, Christina Lamb, Julie Wheelwright & Shawn Sobers join Eleanor Barraclough.
Jewish Identity in 2020
Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, Jonathan Freedland and Matthew Sweet.
Maths and philosophy puzzles
Shahidha Bari looks at the legacy of 20th-century polymath Frank Ramsey (1903-1930).
Anne Enright, The value of gossip
The Irish novelist talks to Laurence Scott, plus a discussion of gossip past and present.
How architecture shapes society
Ricky Burdett, Liza Fior, Des Fitzgerald, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Edwin Heathcote at LSE
Women Behaving Badly?
Helen Lewis joins Shahidha Bari to talk feminist pioneers, dating, and power dynamics.
Genes, racism, ageing and evidence
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin and geneticist Adam Rutherford join Rana Mitter.
