BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco

Diarmuid Hester & Dodie Bellamy tell Naomi Paxton about a 70s experimental writing group.

Diarmuid Hester & Dodie Bellamy on a '70s US writing group. Lauren Elkin on art monsters

Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize.

Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize

Matthew Sweet and guests with an audience at the 2022 Contains Strong Language Festival

Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience

Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.

Dame Sheila Hancock , viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer discuss endings

A poet, crime writer, theologian, marine biologist and Matthew Sweet explore darkness

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician