BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Andrew O'Hagan: Eddie Marsan: John Singer Sargent

Andrew O'Hagan talks to Matthew Sweet about his new novel which looks at memory and war.

Including Joyce Carol Oates's new novel, the film Selma and the play Jefferson's Garden.

With Tom Stoppard's play The Hard Problem, plus musician and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin

Rana Mitter with historians Richard J Evans, Jane Caplan and David Cesarani.

Features the relationship between Disraeli and his wife, plus cities and disaster planning

David Reynolds, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Simon Heffer and David Edgar discuss Churchill.

Debate asking if seeing democracy on screen and stage undermines confidence in politicians

Matthew Sweet discusses the 2015 Oscar nominations and talks to dramatist Russell T Davies

Philip Dodd explores the way we look at art, talking to documentary maker Fred Wiseman.

Anne McElvoy celebrates TS Eliot and discusses the human brain with Allan Ropper.