Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Free Thinking – Putin & Putinism. Salford Lads Club. ‘No Platforming’. Tribute to Philip French.
Matthew Sweet talks to Garry Kasparov, Stuart Maconie and Julie Bindel.

Free Thinking - Feature: Bamburgh Castle
Dr Alun Withey researches an 18th C healthcare scheme at Bamburg Castle in Northumberland

Free Thinking - Medical Surgery Past and Present
Anne McElvoy looks at healthcare past & present with New Generation Thinker Alun Withey

Free Thinking - Erica Jong. Richard Jones. Ben Bernanke
Erica Jong on her book "Fear of Dying". Richard Jones on staging The Hairy Ape

Free Thinking - Witch finding. Marina Warner.
Matthew Sweet and guests including Marina Warner consider the season of the witch.

Free Thinking - James Bond in Spectre. Nawal El Saadawi; Lord Browne.
The Egyptian feminist author Nawal El Saadawi on protest. Lord Browne on business.

Free Thinking - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½. Marilynne Robinson. Edwin Heathcote. Thomas Harding. Imtiaz Dharker
Marilynne Robinson, Edwin Heathcote, Thomas Harding, Imtiaz Dharker talk ideas of home

Free Thinking - Richard Mabey; Andrea Wulf on Humboldt; Stanley Nelson on The Black Panthers
Matthew Sweet with The Invention of Nature, The Cabaret of Plants, and The Black Panthers

Free Thinking - Meera Syal & Tanika Gupta In Conversation at Birmingham Rep
Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta discuss with Rana Mitter turning Anita and Me into a play.

Free Thinking - Salman Rushdie. Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger.
Salman Rushdie talks to Philip Dodd. Also historian Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger.