Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Does My Pet Love Me?
A Free Thinking Festival discussion with Nicky Clayton, Erica Fudge & Kim Bard
The New Age of Sentimentality
Lisa Appignanesi,Rachel Hewitt & Irenosen Okojie w/ Rana Mitter at Free Thinking Festival
Why We Need Weepies
From Bambi and Titanic to EastEnders - Matthew Sweet asks what makes us cry and why?
The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion
Alan Johnson, Pascale Petit, Hisham Matar & Peter Pomerantsev join Eleanor Barraclough
Should Doctors Cry?
Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age?
Where Do Human Rights Come From?
Dafydd Mills Daniel looks at links between the UN, Richard III and Disney's Jiminy Cricket
The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot's Essay from the Free Thinking Festival
The Unsaid
Some people, some times, just can鈥檛 say what they want to. But why not?
Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
What the BBFC archives tell us about censorship debates & a film depicting Salman Rushdie
The Way We Used To Feel
From Neanderthals, via Tudor England to Chartists - 4 historians on emotion in the past