Free Thinking Episodes Available now
High Society, Xinran and China's One-Child Policy, Decisive UK Elections
Anne McElvoy presents a review of High Society at the Old Vic. Plus Chinese writer Xinran.
Landmark: Dante's The Divine Comedy
Prue Shaw, Sean O'Brien, Nick Havely and Kevin Jackson discuss Dante's The Divine Comedy.
Agnes Varda, Gut Instinct, Scientific Research into the Gut
Matthew Sweet on the idea of 'gut instinct'. Plus the ballet Woolf Works and Agnes Varda.
Anne Enright, The Economics of Psychological Therapy, Christopher Hampton
Anne McElvoy is joined by novelist Anne Enright and playwright Christopher Hampton.
Antony Sher
Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with actor Antony Sher.
Sir Thomas Browne and Adventures in Human Beings
Matthew Sweet and guests talk about the doctors in the 17th and the 21st centuries.
Julian Barnes, Bapsi Sidhwa, light-inspired poetry
With Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes and Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa.
Carol Ann Duffy's Everyman, Clive James
Philip Dodd reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman.
Alberto Manguel, Alice in Wonderland, Fashionable Victorian Writers
Alberto Manguel talks to Matthew Sweet about curiosity and a lifetime of reading.
English Civil War, Indigenous Australia
Anne McElvoy hears how a mid-1970s play might cast light on today's political landscape.
