BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Caribbean art

As a Tate Britain show opens, Shahidha Bari looks at Caribbean post war writing and art

Writer Philip Hoare, curator Robert Wenley, historian Helen Cowie talk celebrity animals.

Writer Philip Hoare, curator Robert Wenley, historian Helen Cowie talk celebrity animals.

How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.

How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.

Shahidha Bari and guests read Logue's version of Homer's Iliad and look at its language.

Shahidha Bari and guests read this version of Homer's Illiad and look at Logue's language

Novelists Mircea Cărtărescu and Georgina Harding and historian Philippe Sands on Romania.

Novelists Mircea Cărtărescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy

From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.