Free Thinking Episodes Available now
The Wolfson History Prize 2021
Rana Mitter meets the six authors shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious history prize.
Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings
Anne McElvoy explores the past and present of the transcontinental nation of Egypt.
Archiving, curating and digging for data
Behind the scenes at the Hepworth Wakefield, the Barbican and the Alan Turing Institute.
Marlon James and Neil Gaiman
Two weavers of fantastical fiction sift through myths with Matthew Sweet.
Alison Bechdel
American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel talks mushrooms, therapy and Adrienne Rich.
Napoleon the Gardener and Art Thief
Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter.
Samuel Johnson's circle
Patience Agbabi's novel time-travels back to 18th-century London. So do we.
Northern Ireland
Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland with historians and writers.
Links between Judaism and Christianity
Rector Giles Fraser tells Matthew Sweet how a crisis led to discovering his Jewish roots.
Epistemic Injustice
Shahidha Bari finds out how to use the theory of knowledge to address real-world problems.
