Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Billy Wilder
Novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot
Depicting Disability
The history of disabled people’s political activism, to portrayals in fiction & at courts.
New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture
A history of disability: court fools, political activism, and the 19th century novel.
War in fact and fiction
Historians Margaret McMillan and Rob Johnson. Novelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Mia Couto
War in fact and fiction
Historians and authors discuss their own work and reflections on conflict and violence.
Audiences
A director, event programmer and theatre & dance historians on making work without a crowd
Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
Shahidha Bari discuss the audience in the arts with Kwame Kwei Armah and guests
Individualism and Community
From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA, carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts.
Individualism and Community
From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA to carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts
City Life, estate living and lockdown
Matthew Sweet and guests on how Covid has changed our cities.
