Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking - Landmark: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Rana Mitter on the first historical novel, one that invented Scotland and built Britain
Free Thinking - Whose Book Is It Anyway?
Anne McElvoy discusses new research into how, when and why Britons got the reading habit.
Free Thinking: Enoch Powell; US Supreme Court; War & Art
Birmingham Rep stages a play about Enoch Powell; John Keane & Jananne Al-Ani on war art.
Free Thinking- William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.
South Africa and art with William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes .
Free Thinking - Richard Hakluyt; Man Booker Prize; Chickens in the Anthropocene; Shirley Jackson.
Why chickens are man's best friend, Richard Hakluyt's voyages to America & parallels now
Free Thinking: Artes Mundi Prize. Harriet Walter. Amitav Ghosh. Edmund Richardson
Harriet Walter prepares to play Prospero, a review of the bi-ennial art prize in Cardiff.
Free Thinking - Paul Nash; George Szirtes; Hungary 1956 and now.
A graphic novel inspired by Paul Nash's dreams. Religion & revolution in Hungary debated
Free Thinking: Kevin Brownlow
Kevin Brownlow talks to Matthew Sweet about documenting and restoring silent classics.
Free Thinking: Caravaggio; Bob Dylan; Dario Fo; Lenin's train journey.
Caravaggio's art explored by Letizia Treves, Joe Moshenska and Anders Lustgarten.
Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers - Teju Cole
From Baldwin to Black Lives Matter. Philip Dodd talks to Teju Cole
