Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Caribbean Art
As a Tate Britain show opens, Shahidha Bari looks at Caribbean post-war writing and art
D眉rer, Rhinos and Whales
Writer Philip Hoare, curator Robert Wenley, historian Helen Cowie talk celebrity animals.
Toys
How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.
Christopher Logue's War Music
Shahidha Bari and guests read Logue's version of Homer's Iliad and look at its language.
Romanian History and Literature
Novelists Mircea C膬rt膬rescu and Georgina Harding and historian Philippe Sands on Romania.
Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil
From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss what inspired Marvin Gaye's 1971 album What's Going On?
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
One of the key French existentialists in the 50s, how does Simone de Beauvoir read today?
Being Human 2021
Reseach into covid comics, codes in Dickens, projecting books onto hospital ceilings.
Dogs
Labradors Olive and Mabel became a Covid internet hit - can we know what a dog thinks?
