Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Jewish Identity in 2020
Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, Jonathan Freedland and Matthew Sweet.
Maths and philosophy puzzles
Shahidha Bari looks at the legacy of 20th-century polymath Frank Ramsey (1903-1930).
Anne Enright, The value of gossip
The Irish novelist talks to Laurence Scott, plus a discussion of gossip past and present.
How architecture shapes society
Ricky Burdett, Liza Fior, Des Fitzgerald, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Edwin Heathcote at LSE
Women Behaving Badly?
Helen Lewis joins Shahidha Bari to talk feminist pioneers, dating, and power dynamics.
Genes, racism, ageing and evidence
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin and geneticist Adam Rutherford join Rana Mitter.
African Empire stories
Petina Gappah and Sarah LeFanu on Livingstone, Kipling and Mary Kingsley in Africa.
Japan Now 2020
Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, Yukiko Motoya and Motoyuki Shibata
The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Matthew Sweet talks to Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky and to critics.
Queer Histories
How do we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures?
