Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Free Thinking: Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris.
Are public enquiries good government? Plus Matthew Parris on scorn. Anne McElvoy presents

Free Thinking: John Simpson on the death of the war correspondent.
Philip Dodd and guests consider what we mean by 'news' in 2016.

Free Thinking - A Brexit reading list.
Edith Hall, Chris Kissane + Matthew Sweet consider what might be on a Brexit reading list

Our Relationship with Animals: Will Abberley, Chris Packham, Helen Pilcher, Alan Hook
Shahidha Bari looks at computing for cats, de-extinction and an animal symphony.

Maths: Alex Bellos, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Serafina Cuomo, Vicky Neale
As a newly designed Maths gallery opens at the Science Museum,why we need better numeracy

Free Thinking - Voices in Our Ears: Colin Grant, Josie Rourke, Charles Fernyhough, Clare Walker Gore
Matthew Sweet looks at epilepsy considering Joan of Arc, Wilkie Collins & hearing voices

Free Thinking - Rauschenberg - performance, identity and the writings of Erving Goffman.
What price the self in the 21st century? with Dexter Dalwood, Susie Scott + Tom McCarthy

Elites.
Douglas Carswell, David Runciman and Eliane Glaser join Matthew Sweet to discuss elites.

The Weird. Science and Art at FACT. Japanese film Your Name.
Rana Mitter on science and art on show at Liverpool's FACT and what we mean by the weird.

Schiller's Mary Stuart; Günter Grass. Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves.
Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from Günter Grass