Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot.
Rana Mitter explores identity, forest landscapes and the long impact of the Ottoman empire
Re-writing C20th British Philosophy.
Shahidha Bari with news of the Man Booker Prize and a discussion about female philosophers
Discrimination.
The lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Shahidha Bari to discuss how British justice fails women.
Greed and Landownership Past, Present, Future
Economist Paul Collier, Scottish historian Tom Devine and Colombian novelist Hector Abad
Drugs and Consciousness
Does LSD open the doors of perception or just mess with your head?
The Frieze Debate: Museums in the 21st Century.
Michael Govan, Sabine Haag & Hartwig Fischer at the Royal Institution, London.
Sarah Perry, Spookiness and Fear.
The author of The Essex Serpent talks to Matthew Sweet about re-imagining the Melmoth myth
Rethinking India's connections with the wider world.
Gandhi's power, portable citizenship, Mehrotra's poetry. Rana Mitter with Amit Chaudhuri.
Loss, Grief and Anger
Lisa Appignanesi on public and private loss and how to face its concomitant, anger.
Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence.
