Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Free Thinking - Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant; Yuval Noah Harari.
Post second world war Britain is discussed by the TV dramatist, novelist and Philip Dodd.
Whose Book Is it Anyway?
Anne McElvoy and her panel of guests explore the rise of reading in Britain.
Free Thinking - Landmark: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Rana Mitter on the first historical novel, one that invented Scotland and built Britain
Free Thinking - Whose Book Is It Anyway?
Anne McElvoy discusses new research into how, when and why Britons got the reading habit.
Enoch Powell, US Supreme Court, War and Art
With a play about Enoch Powell, the US Supreme Court and the visual language of war.
Free Thinking: Enoch Powell; US Supreme Court; War & Art
Birmingham Rep stages a play about Enoch Powell; John Keane & Jananne Al-Ani on war art.
Free Thinking- William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.
South Africa and art with William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes .
South African Art: William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland, Gavin Jantjes.
William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.
Free Thinking - Richard Hakluyt; Man Booker Prize; Chickens in the Anthropocene; Shirley Jackson.
Why chickens are man's best friend, Richard Hakluyt's voyages to America & parallels now
Richard Hakluyt, Man Booker Prize, Chickens in the Anthropocene, Shirley Jackson
Includes Richard Hakluyt's legacy, chickens and the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
