Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion
Alan Johnson, Pascale Petit, Hisham Matar & Peter Pomerantsev join Eleanor Barraclough

Should Doctors Cry?
Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age?

Where Do Human Rights Come From?
Dafydd Mills Daniel looks at links between the UN, Richard III and Disney's Jiminy Cricket

The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot's Essay from the Free Thinking Festival

The Unsaid
Some people, some times, just can’t say what they want to. But why not?

Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
What the BBFC archives tell us about censorship debates & a film depicting Salman Rushdie

The Way We Used To Feel
From Neanderthals, via Tudor England to Chartists - 4 historians on emotion in the past

Who Wrote Animal Farm?
Lisa Mullen looks at the contribution of Orwell's wife Eileen to his writing.

How They Manipulate Our Emotions
Ad execs, game designers and VR creatives are all toying with our feelings - is that OK?

Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival
Tom Sutcliffe with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4's conversation programme & an audience at Sage Gateshead