Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking - Man and Machine: Garry Kasparov, Wyndham Lewis. 2017 New Generation Thinker Simon Beard
Philip Dodd looks at AI with Garry Kasparov, Vorticism and research into overpopulation.
Free Thinking - Terrorism: Richard English, Baroness Warsi, 2017 New Generation Thinker Thomas Simpson.
Rana Mitter and guests look at fact and fiction as they explore how terrorism works.
Free Thinking: Tom McCarthy. Jacobitism; Satirical Indexes; A Museum of Modern Nature
Anne McElvoy looks at Bonnie Prince Charlie and Nature exhibitions & meets Tom McCarthy.
Free Thinking: Churchill, Pocahontas and The Idiot
Anne McElvoy considers Churchill on the big screen and the legacy of Pocahontas.
Free Thinking: Narcissism
Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore our obsession with the self.
Free Thinking: Will Self, R. D. Laing and Mandy.
Matthew Sweet talks to Will Self about the mind, consciousness and R. D. Laing.
Free Thinking: Political Sketch Writing. Enclosure Acts. 2017. Branwell Bronte. Pushkin House Book Prize 2017
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the style of the election and the job of sketch writers.
Free Thinking - Revenge: My Cousin Rachel, Natalie Haynes, 2017 New Generation Thinker Islam Issa.
Matthew Sweet sees a film version of Daphne Du Maurier's novel, and revenge in Shakespeare
Free Thinking - Arundhati Roy
The Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd.
Free Thinking - Hay 2017: Writing History with Sebastian Barry, Jake Arnott, Madeleine Thien.
New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon chairs a discussion recorded at the Hay Festival.
