Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking - Erica Jong. Richard Jones. Ben Bernanke
Erica Jong on her book "Fear of Dying". Richard Jones on staging The Hairy Ape
Free Thinking - Witch finding. Marina Warner.
Matthew Sweet and guests including Marina Warner consider the season of the witch.
Free Thinking - James Bond in Spectre. Nawal El Saadawi; Lord Browne.
The Egyptian feminist author Nawal El Saadawi on protest. Lord Browne on business.
Free Thinking - Home. Marilynne Robinson. Edwin Heathcote. Thomas Harding. Imtiaz Dharker
Marilynne Robinson, Edwin Heathcote, Thomas Harding, Imtiaz Dharker talk ideas of home
Free Thinking - Richard Mabey; Andrea Wulf on Humboldt; Stanley Nelson on The Black Panthers
Matthew Sweet with The Invention of Nature, The Cabaret of Plants, and The Black Panthers
Free Thinking - Meera Syal & Tanika Gupta In Conversation at Birmingham Rep
Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta discuss with Rana Mitter turning Anita and Me into a play.
Free Thinking - Salman Rushdie. Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger.
Salman Rushdie talks to Philip Dodd. Also historian Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger.
Free Thinking - Man Booker Winner. Weather and Twilight. The Kibbo Kift.
Matthew Sweet on how weather and twilight can make the world strange.
Free Thinking - Landmark: Leaves of Grass
For National Poetry Day, Matthew Sweet explores Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
Free Thinking - Free Speech on Campus. Acting Arthur Miller
Zo毛 Wanamaker, Antony Sher and David Suchet discuss acting Arthur Miller with Philip Dodd