Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Canada 150: Sydney Newman and British TV, Vahni Capildeo, Shubbak Festival 2017
Matthew Sweet discusses the Canadian producer who transformed British TV drama.
Canada 150: Identity - Robbie Richardson, Alison MacLeod, Deborah Pearson, Rupi Kaur and Kevan Funk
New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott on Canada in TV, poems and art.
Canada 150: Robert Lepage, Katherine Ryan
Philip Dodd's guests are comedian Katherine Ryan and playwright/performer Robert Lepage.
Man and Machine, Wyndham Lewis, Simon Beard
Philip Dodd explores AI with Garry Kasparov. Plus vorticism and overpopulation.
Terrorism
Rana Mitter and guests debate fact and fiction as they explore how terrorism works.
Tom McCarthy, Jacobitism, Satirical Indexes, A Museum of Modern Nature
Anne McElvoy hears about new exhibitions on Bonnie Prince Charlie and nature.
Churchill, Pocahontas, The Idiot
Anne McElvoy considers Churchill on the big screen and the legacy of Pocahontas.
Narcissism: Will Storr, Olivia Sudjic, Tom Jackson and Sophie Scott
Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore our perceived obsession with the self.
Will Self, RD Laing, Mandy
Will Self talks to Matthew Sweet about his new novel. Plus a film about RD Laing.
Political Sketch Writing, Enclosure Acts, Emma Butcher on Branwell Bronte, Pushkin House Book Prize
Anne McElvoy and guests explore the style of the election and the job of sketch writers.
