Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner
Alex Cox discusses surveillance, mind bending and the power of the individual versus the collective in the 1967 cult TV series The Prisoner. Plus Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore and Lynda Nead l...
26 Loka 201744min
Free Thinking: Young Marx, Yanis Varoufakis and Ruth Lea and Tara Bergin
Yanis Varoufakis discusses economics and Marxist analysis with Philip Dodd and Ruth Lea. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman - the team behind One Man, Two Guvnors. which stars Rory...
26 Loka 201744min
Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.
Web guru Tim O'Reilly on algorithm regulation and the magical worlds of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman and Tove Jansson with guests Aisha Bushby, young adult author, and New Generation Thinkers Hetta Ho...
25 Loka 201744min
Free Thinking: Landmark: Marnie
Matthew Sweet discusses memory and Marnie with novelist and Freud scholar Lisa Appignanesi, Andrew Graham - son of the novelist Winston Graham who wrote the 1961 novel which Alfred Hitchcock turned in...
18 Loka 201744min
The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?
Dr Foster writer Mike Bartlett on his new play Albion. Alex Clark reports from the Man Booker prize ceremony. And former SNP MP George Kerevan, David Goodhart and Marián Arribas-Tomé from UEA discuss ...
17 Loka 201745min
Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon
The Gunpowder Plot in a new tv dramatisation by Ronan Bennett plus presenter Rana Mitter explores anti-Catholic prejudice in Britain today with Catherine Pepinster and Tim Stanley, and historians Rich...
12 Loka 201744min
Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley
Simon Schama and Devorah Baum join Philip Dodd for a conversation ranging from the expulsion of Jewish people from Spain in 1492 to Jewish jokes today. Plus, poet Michael Longley considers his preoccu...
11 Loka 201743min
Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty
Novelists Salman Rushdie and Lionel Shriver join science writer Marcus Chown and historian Rachel Hewitt to discuss fiction, US politics, living in uncertain times and the new West End play from Simon...
10 Loka 201744min
