Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking Festival - Breaking News - Telling Stories in Fact and Fiction
Bim Adewunmi John Yorke Emily Woof and Allan Little join Matthew Sweet at Sage Gateshead
The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Politician and Pioneer: Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh
Clare Walker Gore on what a C19th MP without hands and feet tells us about stereotypes.
The Free Thinking Festival Essay - The Moor of Florence A Medici Mystery
Catherine Fletcher on claims that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race
Free Thinking Festival - Rule Breakers or Rule Makers?
Simon Heffer, Peter Tatchell and Joyce Quin in a Free Thinking Festival debate.
The Free Thinking Festival Lecture: Claudia Rankine
Prize-winning poet Claudia Rankine explores language and racism past and present.
Free Thinking - Peggy Seeger
Peggy Seeger talks to Philip Dodd about her life. Tomorrow she performs in World on 3.
Free Thinking - Edna O'Brien
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien in conversation with Philip Dodd.
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