Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Proms Extra - Deep Time
Geologist Iain Stewart and geographer Nicholas Crane consider the concept of "Deep Time"
Free Thinking: Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy
Simon Heffer and Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Sussex University.
Free Thinking: Art in the Age of Black Power; History of Racist Ideas in US
Rana Mitter and Linton Kwesi Johnson and Ibram X Kendi
Free Thinking - Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium. Part of Gay Britannia.
Shahidha Bari discusses LGBTQ in the history of philosophy + the Caine Prize winner
Free Thinking – Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Heer Ranjha. Queer Icons: Sappho. Part of Gay Britannia
The Punjabi "Romeo and Juliet"; and founding the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence
Free Thinking – Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett on wild swimming. Jake Arnott on Joe Orton
Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett swim in the literary and poetic power of the sea
Free Thinking: Food
Matthew Sweet explores the joys of food
Free Thinking: Canada 150: Sydney Newman and British TV; Vahni Capildeo; Shubbak Festival 2017
Matthew Sweet investigates the Canadian dynamo who transformed British TV drama
Free Thinking: Canada 150: Identity Robbie Richardson, Alison MacLeod, Deborah Pearson + Rupi Kaur and Kevan Funk.
New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott look at Canada in TV, poems + art
Free Thinking - Canada 150: Robert Lepage, Katherine Ryan.
The French Canadian playwright/performer and the stand up comedian talk to Philip Dodd