Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Sarah Perry, Spookiness and Fear.
The author of The Essex Serpent talks to Matthew Sweet about re-imagining the Melmoth myth
Rethinking India's connections with the wider world.
Gandhi's power, portable citizenship, Mehrotra's poetry. Rana Mitter with Amit Chaudhuri.
Loss, Grief and Anger
Lisa Appignanesi on public and private loss and how to face its concomitant, anger.
Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence.
The Goodies
Matthew Sweet meets the trio behind the '70s and early '80s TV comedy show.
What Nietzsche teaches us
Biographer Sue Prideaux and others discuss Nietzsche's relevance today
What Camus and Claude Levi-Strauss teach us
Rana Mitter talks to Ben Okri about Camus and debates the 'untamed mind' of Levi-Strauss.
What St Augustine teaches us
Anne McEvoy and guests explore ideas of tyranny, martyrdom, sin and grace.
Sebastian Faulks
The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel, Paris Echo.
Women Finding a Voice.
Deborah Frances-White host of podcast The Guilty Feminist, Natalie Haynes, Michele Roberts
