Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar and Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.
Shakespeare's life lessons
Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray and Emma Whipday find examples in different dramas.
Maryse Cond茅's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan
Shahidha Bari reads I Tituba, the story of the West Indian slave accused in Salem.
Jacques Tati's Trafic
Matthew Sweet, Adam Scovell, Muriel Zagha and Phuong Le on the 1971 French comedy.
Octavia Butler's Kindred
A novel from 1979 which uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma.
Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Matthew Sweet re-reads a classic of French postmodernism.
Milton: Samson Agonistes
Rana Mitter looks at the way politics, blindness and the Bible fed into this dramatic poem
The Liverpool Biennial Debate
How to reflect Liverpool's history in new artworks: Anne McElvoy hosts a discussion.
Spy Talk
From a secret Iraqi cell to new revelations of Cold War exploits. Rana Mitter hosts.
From Blackface to Beyonc茅
Hanif Abdurraqib, Dawn Walton, Adjoa Osei on black performers from jazz to the Super Bowl
