Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Free Thinking Essay: Alexander the Great's Lost City
New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson with a story linking Egypt and Afghanistan.

Free Thinking Festival: Harriet Harman - Politics Fast and Slow
Labour MP Harriet Harman on sustaining her career in a fast-changing political world.

Free Thinking Essay: Monks, Models and Medieval Time
Seb Falk on the 14th century monks who studied astronomy, a world of science & religion.

Free Thinking Festival: Faster, Faster, Faster?
Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher debate the speed of life.

Free Thinking: Sleep - Freedom to Think
Russell Foster, leading neuroscientist, with the Free Thinking lecture, The Speed of Life

Free Thinking - Rodney Graham at BALTIC, The Amber Collective.
New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari visits exhibitions opening in Gateshead and Newcastle

Free Thinking: Images of America
As London hosts 2 exhibitions of American art, Anne McElvoy discusses the American Dream.

Free Thinking - Michael Lewis.
The New York Times bestselling author is in conversation with Matthew Sweet.

Free Thinking: Neglected Women: Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Charlotte Robinson.
Author Tracy Chevalier and new academic research into women forgotten from history.

Free Thinking: Landmark: Machiavelli's The Prince
Sarah Dunant, Erica Benner, MP Gisela Stuart and Catherine Fletcher with Philip Dodd.