Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman
The authors talk electric shocks, Shakespeare and the power of women with Philip Dodd.

Free Thinking: Wells' Women
As the London Literature Festival opens, HG Wells: women, politics and four dimensions.

Free Thinking - Sound Frontiers: Kamila Shamsie, Nikesh Shukla, Drugs in the German Reich. Board Games.
Rana Mitter debates refugees, what is a good immigrant? Hitler's drug addiction and games

Free Thinking - Sound Frontiers: Books of 1946
Benjamin Markovits, Lara Feigel and Kevin Jackson discuss the best fiction of 1946

Free Thinking - Sound Frontiers: Success debated by Peter Frankopan, Edith Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah
Anne McElvoy & guests on Success, subject for debate on the Third Programme back in 1967

Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: People Power
Philip Dodd and guests discuss Clement Attlee's legacy, people power and cultural tastes.

Free Thinking: Medieval Manuscripts. Emma Donoghue.
Author of Room talks to Matthew Sweet about starvation and sainthood in her new novel

Free Thinking: American Power? Suzan-Lori Parks. Gary Younge. Abstract Expressionism.
Pulitzer prize winning American dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks. William Boyd on American art.

Free Thinking: Shelina Janmohamed. Edward Ardizzone's Art. Jewish identity in fiction
Shelina Janmohamed explores "Generation M". Plus Edward Ardizzone's daughter on his art.

Free Thinking: Energy and Landscape: Edward Burtynsky, Ella Hickson
Photographer Edward Burtynsky, playwright Ella Hickson & experts on energy policy debate.