Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking - Blade Runner. Ghost Stories
Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 & visits haunted places in Portsmouth
Free Thinking - Alan Hollinghurst
The former Booker Prize winner talks to Anne McElvoy and a Proms Extra audience.
Free Thinking: The importance of networks; the art of dance.
Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.
Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.
Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.
Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.
Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido
Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.
Free Thinking. Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World
The Northern Irish author of Cal talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break
Testosterone. The grey zone. Indian science.
Jahnavi Phalkey, Matt Kimberley, Richard Fortey, Adrian Owen & Cordelia Fine.
Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.
Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo.
Free Thinking: Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.
Anne McElvoy talks to Anne Applebaum about Russian and Ukrainian history.
