Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking – The Holy Roman Empire; Peter H Wilson, Janet Soskice, Rupert Shortt. Iranian art
Rana Mitter reads a new history of the Holy Roman Empire & discusses Christianity today.
Free Thinking – Javier Marias; Cervantes; Spanish politics today
Javier Marias talks to Philip Dodd about fiction, politics & the writing of Cervantes.
Free Thinking - International Women's Day: Hollie McNish, Emily Hall, Helen Pearson, Edwina Attlee and Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Performance poet Hollie McNish and scientist Helen Pearson join Anne McElvoy.
Free Thinking - Botticelli Reimagined, A New Biography of Hitler
How German historians view Hitler now and Anne McElvoy reviews Botticelli at the V&A
Anger.
Philip Dodd considers rage in the politics of the US and India
Free Thinking – Neil Jordan, The Lonely City
Film director Neil Jordan on writing fiction. Olivia Laing explores loneliness.
Free Thinking – Russian Culture Inwards and Outwards
Anne McElvoy and Charles Clover on the old idea shaping contemporary Russian geopolitics.
Free Thinking
Karl Ove Knausgård talks to Philip Dodd in a programme looking at Scandinavia today.
Free Thinking
Karl Ove Knausgård talks to Philip Dodd in a programme looking at Scandinavia today.
Free Thinking - Religion Without Belief: Buddhist thinker Stephen Batchelor; Kader Abdolah; Linda Woodhead
Rana Mitter discusses a translation of the Qur'an & atheism in the UK & ancient Greece