Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking - The Oscars
Matthew Sweet looks at the revival of Westerns and reports on the 2016 Oscar contenders
Free Thinking - French thought and politics.
Is France ceasing to be French - Philip Dodd and his guests investigate
Free Thinking - TS Eliot poetry prize winner. Lisa Randall on dark matter.
Anne McElvoy talks to the winner of this year's TS Eliot poetry prize Sarah Howe.
Free Thinking - Velasquez; John Bratby; Pan Haggerty
Anne McElvoy talks to Laura Cumming about a C19 court case involving a Vel谩zquez portrait
Free Thinking 鈥� Landmark: Lorraine Hansberry
With two plays by Lorraine Hansberry being staged Philip Dodd examines her achievement
Free Thinking -Teenage life: David and Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine, Iroise Dumontheil, Simon Stephens
Matthew Sweet, David & Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine, Iroise Dumontheil, Simon Stephens
Free Thinking - Star Wars. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Ruth Scurr on John Aubrey. Beowulf.
Anne McElvoy talks to Christopher Hampton & Adjoa Andoh about Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Free Thinking - Cities and Safety
Philip Dodd rereads Conrad's The Secret Agent and considers what a safe city means now.
Free Thinking - Northern Lights Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries
Colm Toibin, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ellen Wettmark join Matthew Sweet.
Free Thinking - Must The Arts Be Relevant?
Mark Baldwin, Catherine Wood, Jennifer Walshe, Sarah Kent and Vayu Naidu debate the arts.
