Free Thinking Episodes Available now
The post-Covid city
How the pandemic has transformed our use and experience of urban space
The Writing of Aimé Césaire
From négritude and his Discourse on Colonialism to his long inventive and punning poetry.
The Writing of Aime Cesaire
Cesaire's poetry, politics, and ideas on anti-colonialism and black consciousness
2020 Polari Prize winners
Shahidha Bari looks at some of the best recent LGBTQ+ writing and photography.
Polari Prize winners
Pleasure & responsibility in LGBTQ+ art with the Polari Prize & photographer Sunil Gupta
Seances and Science
A Croydon poltergeist and artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale and Simon Grant.
Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
A haunting & artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale, Richard Wiseman & Matthew Sweet
Derrida and post truth
Matthew Sweet asks biographer Peter Salmon about Derrida's influence today
Post Truth & Derrida
What is Derrida's influence in the 'post-truth' age?
Daljit Nagra & Val McDermid; Reynard the Fox
A poet and a crime writer compare notes; plus, lessons for now from a medieval foxy fable
