BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Matthew Barzun, Speed-the-Plow Review

Anne McElvoy is joined by the US ambassador to Britain. Plus a review of Speed-the-Plow.

Rana Mitter with a first-night review of Sophocles' Electra, starring Kristin Scott Thomas

Matthew Sweet talks to novelist Neel Mukherjee, shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

Thomas Ostermeier's Ibsen adaptation, Joseph O'Neill and Man Booker nominee Ali Smith.

Philip Dodd is joined by political scientist Francis Fukuyama and author Howard Jacobson.

Matthew Sweet discusses language with Steven Pinker and Will Self.

From Tate Modern, London, Anne McElvoy leads a debate about abstract art past and present.

Author Martin Amis discusses his writing with Philip Dodd.

Lenny Henry talks to Matthew Sweet in front of an audience at Birmingham Rep.

Matthew Sweet with Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon, historian Tom Devine and John Cook.