Free Thinking Episodes Episode guide
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Julian Schnabel, Michael Goldfarb on pianist Alice Herz-Sommer
Philip Dodd meets artist Julian Schnabel. Plus Michael Goldfarb on Alice Herz-Sommer.
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Vikings, Seafaring and Navigation
Matthew Sweet visits the British Museum's Vikings exhibition.
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Amy Chua, Versailles by Peter Gill, Spitting Image
Writers Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld talk to Anne McElvoy about what determines success.
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Wim Wenders on Peace, Richard King on Taking Offence
Film director Wim Wenders and philosopher Mary Zournazi discuss peace with Philip Dodd.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Danny Dorling
Samira Ahmed considers scoundrels in culture and also the housing market.
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France and Algeria, Birds, Augustus
Anne McElvoy discusses France and its former colonies, plus bird mating systems.
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Landmark: Charlie Chaplin's City Lights
Matthew Sweet hosts a discussion about Chaplin recorded at the Bristol Slapstick Festival.
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Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, Class in Britain, An Eton Education
With a review of Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey at the National Theatre.
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Stuart Hall
An archive broadcast from 2004 to mark the death of cultural historian Stuart Hall.
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Jane Eyre versus Anne of Green Gables, Parent Power, Georg Baselitz, Flooding in Literature
Anne McElvoy discusses parent power, literary heroines, artist Georg Baselitz and floods.
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Atheism and Belief
Philip Dodd discusses religious belief with Terry Eagleton, Peter Watson and Roger Scruton
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Spike Jonze's Her, Big Data
Matthew Sweet on Spike Jonze's new film Her, Big Data and the Internet of Things.
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Hanif Kureishi
Author Hanif Kureishi in extended interview with Philip Dodd.
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The Monocled Mutineer; Roman Krznaric's Empathy Revolution
Matthew Sweet discusses TV series The Monocled Mutineer and First World War archives.
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Christine Lagarde
Anne McElvoy explores the arguments of Christine Lagarde's Richard Dimbleby Lecture.
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Unrest in Ukraine and protest in Russia
Anne McElvoy discusses unrest in Ukraine and the state of dissent in Russia today.
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Germaine Greer, Christos Tsiolkas
Samira Ahmed presents a special edition discussing Australian culture.
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Martin Creed, Feminism in Theatre, Pete Seeger
Matthew Sweet discusses the work of artist Martin Creed and debates feminism in theatre.
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Simon Russell Beale; Derek Jarman
Simon Russell Beale talks about playing King Lear; an appraisal of Derek Jarman's career.
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Japanese History, Chinese Democracy
Rana Mitter talks to Zhang Weiwei, one of China's leading public intellectuals.
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Suicide; black British actors; Roma; audio games
Matthew Sweet explores the sound of gaming and the way we talk about suicide.
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Oscar Nominations, Steve McQueen, Slavery Narratives
Director Steve McQueen talks to Matthew Sweet talks about his new film 12 Years a Slave.
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Girls, Daniel Alarcon, The Constitution
Presented by Samira Ahmed. With the TV series Girls, Daniel Alarcon and the constitution.
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TS Eliot Prize, Rebecca Lenkiewicz on The Oresteia
Sin茅ad Morrissey on winning the TS Eliot poetry prize; Rebecca Lenkiewicz on The Oresteia.
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Landmark: George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England
Philip Dodd and guests discuss George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England.
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Breaking Free: Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities
William Boyd, Margaret Drabble and Matthew Sweet discuss Musil's The Man Without Qualities
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European Cities on the Brink of War
AS Byatt, Alexandra Harris, Neil Brand and Philipp Blom on culture in Europe pre-WWI.
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Tokyo Story
Actor Richard Wilson & Prof Naoko Shimazu discuss Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 film of family life.
