Free Thinking Episodes Available now
            Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas
Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.
            Tacita Dean, Mountains, John Tyndall
Landscape in motion plus how mountain climbing inspired a physicist and photographers.
            The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate
Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy.
            Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch
Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.
            Jordan B Peterson
Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets a YouTube star.
            Designing the future
Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.
            John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism
Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.
            What is Speech?
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox.
            Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing.
            Out of control?
Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight, with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.