Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking - Olafur Eliasson. Andrey Kurkov. Mary Dejevsky and Zinovy Zinik on Soviet Culture.
Philip Dodd talks to the artist Olafur Eliasson and novelist Andrey Kurkov.
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Free Thinking - Germany: Neil MacGregor. A.T. Williams & Philippe Sands. Threepenny Opera. Volker Kutscher.
Anne McElvoy talks to Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher, Hadyn Gwynne.
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Free Thinking - Economics: Liam Byrne, John Redwood, Luke Johnson, Juliet Michaelson and Matt Wolf
Anne McElvoy considers new books from Thomas Piketty and Yanis Varoufakis.
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Free Thinking - Peter Singer
Moral philosopher Peter Singer is in conversation with Philip Dodd
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Free Thinking - Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm.
Philip Dodd looks at Latin America with writers Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro.
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Free Thinking - Jane Mayer Dark Money - Money & US Politics - Flora Nwapa's Efuru - African Literature - Emma Cline The Girls
Emma Cline on cults and teenage girls, and we reread Flora Nwapa's pioneering novel Efuru
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Free Thinking - Bhupen Khakhar. The City State of London? Saskia Sassen, Jane Morris, David Anderson and Pat Kane.
Philip Dodd explores the art of Bhupen Khakhar as a retrospective opens at Tate Modern.
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Free Thinking - Beauty: Dame Fiona Reynolds. The Bowes Museum. David Willetts on The State.
Anne McElvoy talks to Dame Fiona Reynolds about preserving beauty in the countryside.
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Free Thinking
Karl Ove Knausg氓rd talks to Philip Dodd in a programme looking at Scandinavia today.
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Free Thinking
Karl Ove Knausg氓rd talks to Philip Dodd in a programme looking at Scandinavia today.
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Free Thinking
This week's Arts & Ideas podcast features extracts from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.
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Free speech, censorship and modern China
The writings of Chinese women, from Ding Ling to coming of age in the 1990s
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Free Love, Catholicism, Roger Corman, Red Dog
With Matthew Sweet. French philosopher Pascal Bruckner and the author Lisa Appignanesi...
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Frantz Fanon
Re-reading the major 20th century theorist of decolonisation
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Frankenstein and AI now.
Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H. Guston with Matthew Sweet.
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Frank Ramsey
Shahidha Bari looks at the life and legacy of the 20th century polymath
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
The screenwriter and novelist talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting Britain in his work.
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Frank Cottrell Boyce, Lisa Jardine and the street versus the internet
Frank Cottrell Boyce on the joys of failure; Lisa Jardine and her scientist father's -...
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Francis Wells
One of the world's top heart surgeons, Francis Wells, discusses the future of the his...
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Francis Fukuyama, train murders, Dining with Alice, Vidal Sassoon
Francis Fukuyama talks about his new book. A discussion about train murders.
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Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot.
Rana Mitter explores identity forest landscapes and the long impact of the Ottoman empire
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Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the 1974 Gene Hackman film about surveillance and murder
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France, music hall and history
An outdoor history of France and a look inside popular French theatre's view on Britain
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Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4
Shahidha Bari reads Robert Hurley's new English translation
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Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner
Director Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore & Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet
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Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan
How food impacts on the environment; Richard Flanagan on his novel about a dying planet
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Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Glenda Jackson talks to Matthew Sweet about John Schlesinger's 1971 love triangle drama
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Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Glenda Jackson talks to Matthew Sweet about John Schlesinger's 1971 love triangle drama
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Fighting Women
How women have fought on the frontline from antiquity to the present day
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Female power and influence past and present
Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro
