Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Schiller's Mary Stuart; G眉nter Grass. Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves.
Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from G眉nter Grass
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith talks dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences with Philip Dodd
Free Thinking - Beards. Listening. Masculinity.
Alun Withey on beards, Josh Appignanesi & Devorah Baum on fatherhood, with Matthew Sweet
Free Thinking: Being Human: What the Archives Reveal
Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetery and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.
Free Thinking - Being Human: New Generation Thinkers explore Escape, Lying and Fear.
Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott on Vernon Lee, Harvey Matusow and wartime Senate House
Free Thinking - Art Spiegelman. Marina Abramovic. American Pastoral.
Naomi Alderman reports on a version of Maus which puts music alongside the images.
Free Thinking - Being Human Debate at FACT, Liverpool: Man and Animals
From mermaids to robots via monkeys and men and zoos for humans and animals.
Free Thinking - Black British History.
Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on Black Britain
Free Thinking: Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All
Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch and some Victorian jokes
Free Thinking - Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant; Yuval Noah Harari.
Post second world war Britain is discussed by the TV dramatist, novelist and Philip Dodd.
