Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Climate change, nature and art
Ingrid Pollard, Julian Perry, Patricia Dominguez, Will Abberley and Eleanor Barraclough.
Perfecting the Body
Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Xine Yao and Harry Parker discuss.
Artists' models and fame
Egon Schiele's women, Whistler's Woman in White, new radio ballads. Shahidha Bari hosts.
Pankaj Mishra, Research into Indian history
Pankaj Mishra discusses his new novel about four friends in an age of upheaval.
Hitchhiking
Matthew Sweet considers examples from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Polish tokens.
China, Freud, War and Sci-Fi
From AI and fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.
Stonehenge History
Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths.
Existential Risk
Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests.
Whale Watching
Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.
Diverse Classical Music II
New research into music by Margaret Bonds, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Ali Osman, Isaac Hishow.
