Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Jews in Occupied France: Coexistence with the Enemy?
Daniel Lee revisits Vichy France to uncover a different history of Jewish life there.
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Women on Their Own: Widows in Britain, Now and Then
Nadine Muller on the status of the widow in fact and fiction 鈥�
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - The Moor of Florence A Medici Mystery
Catherine Fletcher on claims that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Politician and Pioneer: Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh
Clare Walker Gore on what a C19th MP without hands and feet tells us about stereotypes.
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Nancy Cunard: The Rebellious Heiress
Sandeep Parmar on the life of the anti racist campaigner, modernist muse and heiress
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Kilts, Celts and Clearances in World War One
Peter Mackay on what kilt wearing meant for some soldiers fighting World War One
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Inside a Pirate鈥檚 Cookbook: A Culinary Journey through the 17th Century
Joe Moshenska on Sir Kenelm Digby - alchemist, astrologer, diplomat and recipe collector.
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Beer and the British Empire
Sam Goodman looks at the way beer was used as both beverage and medicine in Colonial India
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The Forgotten German Princess
The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.
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The Foreign Secretary William Hague
William Hague discusses the dramatic changes taking throughout the globe and Britain's...
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The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute
Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst
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The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot's Essay from the Free Thinking Festival
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The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
Daisy Black conjures up images of breaking bread and cannibalism in mystery plays
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The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress
Sophie Oliver on motherhood, a old dress and rereading Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Essay - The Magic Years
Medical historian Matthew Smith on 1970s US psychiatry - a time of hope and promise.
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The Essay - The British Writer and the Refugee
Katherine Cooper on the work by British writers to save colleagues in Europe during WW2.
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The Essay - In the Shadows of Biafra
Louisa Egbunike explores images of refugees and Igbo rituals which continue to resonate.
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The Essay - Faith, Fire and the Family
Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.
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The Essay - Creating Modern India
Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.
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The English country house party
Why does the grand country house party hold such power over the English imagination?
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The English Civil War
Rana Mitter talks about politics, religion and divisions in 17th-century England.
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The end of civilisations and societies
Peter Hitchens, Rhiannon Firth, Neville Morley, Phil Tinline, Luke Kemp join Shahidha Bari
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The Emotion of Now
Which is the most pertinent emotion in 2019 UK?
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The Dutch Connection
John Gallagher hears about new research into Anglo-Dutch trade and early publishing
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The Digital Humanities
How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.
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The Declaration Of Arbroath
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the early medieval document and Scottish politics today
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The Day of the Triffids
The end of the world as we know it. Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's novel
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The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction.
Michael Rosen looks at socialist fairy tales and radicalism in books for children.
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The Dance of Nature
Jim Al-Khalili, Melissa Bateson, Andrew McBain and Richard Bevan explore group behaviour
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The Daleks
Matthew Sweet's guests include the voice of the Daleks, and the Doctor's granddaughter
