Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking Essay: Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?
Tom Simpson on a study of suspicion in a 1950s Italian village & community relations now
Free Thinking Essay:Art for Health's Sake
Daisy Fancourt's research shows the arts can improve health so should we prescribe them?
The Dance of Nature
Jim Al-Khalili, Melissa Bateson, Andrew McBain and Richard Bevan explore group behaviour
Free Thinking Essay: Welling Up: Women & Water in the Middle Ages
Hetta Howes looks at male fears + why Margery Kempe was criticised for crying & bleeding.
The Population Bomb
Danny Dorling, Lionel Shriver and Stephen Emmott debate with Matthew Sweet.
The Free Thinking Lecture: Linda Yueh on Globalisation
Economist Linda Yueh delivers her vision for restoring faith in the free market.
New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement.
With Helen Pankhurst, Jane Robinson, Shahida Rahman, Fern Riddell and Miranda Garrett
The Golden Notebook
Lara Feigel, Xiaolu Guo, Melissa Benn + David Aaronovitch on Doris Lessing's 1962 novel.
A Sentimental Journey
Se谩n Williams rereads Laurence Sterne's subjective travel book & talks to Philip Hensher
What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs
Poetic and archaeological trip round our fascination with what comes up when we dig down.
