Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking: Breaking Free: Landmark - Paradise Lost
John Carey, Islam Issa, Mandy Green and Joe Moshenska with Philip Dodd.
Free Thinking: Breaking Free - Martin Luther’s Revolution. New Research into the Reformation
Alec Ryrie, Tom Charlton, Elizabeth Goodwin and Tara Hamling join Rana Mitter.
Free Thinking - Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution
Peter Stanford Ulinka Rublack and Diarmaid MacCulloch discuss Martin Luther.
Free Thinking - Wellcome Book Prize, Civil Wars: Susan Buck-Morss and A.C. Grayling, Louisa Egbunike and Akachi Ezeigbo.
Anne McElvoy discusses nation states and war with A.C. Grayling and Susan Buck-Morss.
Free Thinking - What now for environmentalism? With Paul Kingsnorth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman
Writer Paul Kingsnorth talks about his changing attitude to the environmental movement.
Free Thinking - Smell: Michele Roberts, A history of dentistry
Matthew Sweet is joined by writer Michele Roberts, who talks about her latest novel.
Free Thinking - Landmark: Leaves of Grass
Poets Mark Doty and Andrew McMillan and Professor Sarah Churchwell on Walt Whitman's poem
Free Thinking – John Irving
The author of The Cider House Rules on religion, Mexico and the USA. With Philip Dodd.
Free Thinking - Writers Writing about Love
Alain de Botton, Tahmima Anam and AL Kennedy talk to Anne McElvoy about love in prose.
Free Thinking - Taking the Long View with the Animal Kingdom
Tim Birkhead and Phyllis Lee on long-lived animal species and their survival strategies.