Free Thinking Episodes Available now
From 18th-century automata to superheroes and digital living
Matthew Sweet visits the Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.
Renzo Piano
The Italian architect talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou to the Shard
What do you call a stranger? - The Caine Prize - NHS ideals.
Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.
Olivia Laing, Fun Home
Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA.
The body, past and present
Beauty from the Renaissance to the present.
The Working Lunch and Food in History
How the Victorians changed lunch. Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.
Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas
The man who loved our trees and woods and his ideas about what they might become.
Windrush, Forests in Art, South African Jazz
Colin Grant, Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari
The Word For World Is Forest
Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel and discusses the Paul Foot Award.
The Piano and Love
Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.
