Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Essay - In the Shadows of Biafra
Louisa Egbunike explores images of refugees and Igbo rituals which continue to resonate.
Free Thinking Festival: How Short is a Short Story?
George Saunders, Kirsty Logan, Jenn Ashworth and Paul McVeigh on writing short fiction.
Free Thinking Essay: Alexander the Great's Lost City
New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson with a story linking Egypt and Afghanistan.
Free Thinking Festival: Harriet Harman - Politics Fast and Slow
Labour MP Harriet Harman on sustaining her career in a fast-changing political world.
Free Thinking Essay: Monks, Models and Medieval Time
Seb Falk on the 14th century monks who studied astronomy, a world of science & religion.
Free Thinking Festival: Faster, Faster, Faster?
Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher debate the speed of life.
Free Thinking: Sleep - Freedom to Think
Russell Foster, leading neuroscientist, with the Free Thinking lecture, The Speed of Life
Free Thinking - Rodney Graham at BALTIC, The Amber Collective.
New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari visits exhibitions opening in Gateshead and Newcastle
Free Thinking: Images of America
As London hosts 2 exhibitions of American art, Anne McElvoy discusses the American Dream.
Free Thinking - Michael Lewis.
The New York Times bestselling author is in conversation with Matthew Sweet.
