Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking Essay: Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present
Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and now.
Gangs, the Usual Suspects
Symeon Brown, James Docherty, Alistair Fraser chaired by Matthew Sweet.
Power to the People?
David Runciman, Rod Liddle, Caroline MacFarland Danny Dorling & Anne McElvoy in Gateshead
Free Thinking Essay: When Shakespeare Travelled With Me
Islam Issa on arguments about Shakespeare in 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop in the 21st century
Are We Afraid of Being Alone?
Sara Maitland, Lionel Shriver, and John-Henry Clay explore solitude.
Free Thinking Essay: A War of Words
Christopher Bannister on the way a fashion show in Buenos Aires helped win World War II.
Free Thinking Essay: Doing Nothing
Alastair Fraser on teenagers, gangs and filling time.
Has Social Media Cracked the Code to the Crowd?
Julia Hobsbawm, Jamie Bartlett, Laurence Scott and Abeba Birhane with Anne McElvoy.
Free Thinking Essay: Educating Ida
Eleanor Lybeck on the women campaigners satirised in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Podcast: There Is No I in Team
MP Johnny Mercer, Theatre Director Elizabeth Newman and former footballer Paul Fletcher.
