Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Proms Lecture: Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the cultural legacy of the 2012 Olympics and the role of the arts

Free Thinking - Rio, addiction, and saying the unsayable
Anne McElvoy looks ahead to the Rio Olympics discussing Brazilian culture.

Free Thinking - War: Tear Gas. New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri on the Spanish Civil War. Iraq.
Philip Dodd discusses war and modern memory.

Free Thinking - Liverpool Biennial 2016
Matthew Sweet reports from Liverpool where art has taken over the city.

Free Thinking - Scotland, Wales and the Ukraine: New Generation Thinker Victoria Donovan. The 2016 Caine Prize.
New Generation Thinker Victoria Donovan on Welsh links to Ukraine. Caine Prize winner

Free Thinking: The Desert: Geoff Dyer, Laurence Scott, Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe images of New Mexico at Tate and Matthew Sweet looks at deserts

Free Thinking - Hisham Matar. Street Furniture. Easternisation. New Generation Thinker Katherine Cooper on Storm Jameson.
Hisham Matar's search for his father. Street furniture. Easternisation. Storm Jameson.

Free Thinking - Post Referendum reflections and New Generation Thinker Chris Kissane on citizenship.
The long view of the vote to leave the EU and New Generation Thinker Chris Kissane.

Free Thinking - Tony Garnett
British TV and film producer Tony Garnett is in conversation with Matthew Sweet

Free Thinking - Walter Benjamin; A cultural history of the body; Edvard Munch; Soviet Superwoman
Anne McElvoy evaluates the fiction of Walter Benjamin and the Soviet superwoman.