Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars
Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.
Marxism
Anne Applebaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Seymour discuss Marxism now.
America: Inequality & Race
Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.
Tokyo Idols and Urban life
Tomoyuki Hoshino, Suzanne Mooney, Mariko Nagai and Kyoko Miyake on representing city life.
Landmark: Rashomon
David Peace and Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.
Japan and Nature
The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy.
Learning from Sweden
From IKEA to Bergman and ABBA - Matthew Sweet looks at Sweden's impact on Britain.
Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer
Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.
The Politics of Fashion and Drag
Shahidha Bari talks to Jenny Gilbert about fashion & Scrumbly Koldewyn about The Cockettes
Marilynne Robinson
The American novelist and essayist talks religion, fiction & US politics with Rana Mitter.
