BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Antarctica: Testing Ground for the Human Species

Ben Saunders, Meredith Hooper, Hugh Broughton and Jonathan Bamber join Rana Mitter.

10/10 Joanna Cohen compares 19th-century attitudes to American politicians with those of today.

9/10 Preti Taneja explores the politics of language and its impact on Indian literature.

Rana Mitter explores the links between the behaviour of animals and humans.

8/10 Naomi Paxton on the movement for a women's theatre from the 1890s to the start of WWI.

John Lanchester discusses the wealth gap, banking and how we understand the economy.

7/10 Will Abberley explores the evolution of language and what we learn from science fiction.

Turkish writer Elif Shafak joins Anne McElvoy in conversation at Sage Gateshead.

6/10 Alasdair Cochrane of Sheffield University argues that animals should have greater rights.

David Almond, Eliza Carthy and Alison Light debate working class history with Anne McElvoy