Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith talks dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences with Philip Dodd
Free Thinking - Beards. Listening. Masculinity.
Alun Withey on beards, Josh Appignanesi & Devorah Baum on fatherhood, with Matthew Sweet
Free Thinking: Being Human: What the Archives Reveal
Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetery and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.
Free Thinking - Being Human: New Generation Thinkers explore Escape, Lying and Fear.
Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott on Vernon Lee, Harvey Matusow and wartime Senate House
Free Thinking - Being Human Debate at FACT, Liverpool: Man and Animals
From mermaids to robots via monkeys and men and zoos for humans and animals.
Free Thinking - Art Spiegelman. Marina Abramovic. American Pastoral.
Naomi Alderman reports on a version of Maus which puts music alongside the images.
Free Thinking - Black British History.
Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on Black Britain
Free Thinking: Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All
Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch and some Victorian jokes
Free Thinking - Landmark: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Rana Mitter on the first historical novel, one that invented Scotland and built Britain
Free Thinking - Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant; Yuval Noah Harari.
Post second world war Britain is discussed by the TV dramatist, novelist and Philip Dodd.
