Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo
Helen Mort and Blake Morrison talk mentoring. Oulipo: rules for writing in 1960s Paris.
About Face
What would you change about your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?
New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries
Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
New research on Herman Moll's maps, looted Mexican coins and Alan Bates's early career.
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
What connects a "double elephant" sized map, an academy of dissenters and Daniel Defoe?
The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?
The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?
What we cherish and what we give away
What objects do we value most and what do we give away to charity shops?
Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
Matthew Sweet on charity shops, 'stuff', musical typewriters and the Being Human Festival
Billy Wilder
Matthew Sweet, novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot.
