Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking - Must The Arts Be Relevant?
Mark Baldwin, Catherine Wood, Jennifer Walshe, Sarah Kent and Vayu Naidu debate the arts.
Free Thinking - Northern Lights: crime fiction and cold settings
Margaret Atwood, Arnaldur Indriadason and MJ McGrath talk about crime fiction and cold.
Free Thinking Festival: Northern Lights: Joanne Harris on the Norse god Loki
Joanne Harris and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough discuss the god Loki and Norse beliefs.
Free Thinking - Mein Kampf; Larissa MacFarquhar; Julia Margaret Cameron
Anna Fox and Chantal Joffe discuss Julia Margaret Cameron plus altruism's wilder shores.
Free Thinking - Kenzaburo Oe, Artist and Empire at Tate Britain, Japan and Cool Now
Philip Dodd reviews the newly translated novel from Nobel prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.
Free Thinking - Umberto Eco
Italian author Umberto Eco talks to Matthew Sweet about conspiracy theories and war.
Rule Making and Rule Breaking for Women and Men.
Sheila Hancock, Neil Bartlett, Bim Adewunmi and head teacher Jonny Mitchell debate rules.
Free Thinking Festival - Breathalysing Britain: Free Spirits or a Drain on Society?
David Yelland, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Dr Sally Marlow and Prof Barry Smith on alcohol
Free Thinking Festival - Work Available: No Humans Need Apply
Paul Mason, Lucy Armstrong and Richard and Daniel Susskind debate the future of work
Free Thinking Festival - Stage Directions
A discussion of the actor/director relationship and are there rules for good theatre?
