Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration
Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.
Rivers and geopolitics
Global Dams, Ancient Rome & the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity
Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns w/ Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias
Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.
Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer and talks to novelist Bernardine Evaristo.
Wolfson History Prize Discussion.
Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy
Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model
Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.
Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize
A philosopher of love and a philosopher in love
Landmark: Audre Lorde
Jackie Kay & Selina Thompson discuss the influential US writer & civil rights activist
Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers
From German techno music to the Glasgow ‘rag trade’, divisive dams and democracy's bug
20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World.
Aatish Taseer, Veronica Strang and Thomas Dixon at the Free Thinking Festival.