Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
Sir Paul Nurse and Tristram Hunt debate with an audience at Queen Mary University London.
Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
Anne McElvoy looks at the career of Botswana's most influential writer.
Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.
The director of Get Carter talks to Matthew Sweet about writing his own crime stories.
Slavery Stories
A long-lost classic now published and Esi Edugyan's Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel.
Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books
Artist Penny Woolcock, global health researcher Thomas Bollyky and Jane Stevens Crawshaw
Leadership: lessons from US presidents and campaigners
Doris Kearns Goodwin on what makes a good president. Plus Georgina Harding on war.
The Left Behind
Eric Kaufmann talks to Philip Dodd about white identity, populism and immigration
What kind of history should we write?
Peter Frankopan, and Maya Jasanoff, winner of the world's richest prize for history.
Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research
From ancient religion to London's Greek Cypriot community and the 29 bus route.
Death rituals
From death cafes to bronze age burials, from C19 mourning rings to the way doctors cope.
