Free Thinking Episodes Available now
How we see pregnancy past and present
Anne McElvoy hears the story of a woman who gave birth to rabbits and the news from Davos.
Remembering Auschwitz
Rana Mitter marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation and talks to author Anne Michaels
What is good listening?
Matthew Sweet with New York Times journalist Kate Murphy, Anne Karpf and David Toop.
Poetry and Science
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Greg Tate, Sam Illingworth & Sunayana Bhargava join Anne McElvoy.
Pioneering women: academics and classics
Nikita Gill & Francesca Wade on classicist Jane Harrison, goddesses and LSE's Eileen Power
Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
Matthew Sweet asks if the fictional science of psychohistory changed the future of humans.
Simplify your life - ideas from 20th-century radicals
Laurence Scott looks at the rise of vegetarianism, a basic income, world peace and nudism.
Why we read and the idea of the 'woman writer'
From Elizabethan poet Anne Dowriche and Anne Bronte to what women say they read now.
Philosophy, imagination and film
Rana Mitter, Sally Potter and philosophers discuss thought experiments and cinema.
Could there be a private language?
Shahidha Bari investigates how Wittgenstein meets the challenge of scepticism.
