Free Thinking - High Society; Xinran; UK elections
A week on from the election, Anne McElvoy turns to three historians - Tim Bale, Krista Cowman and Jon Lawrence - to offer their views on the dramatic changes to the UK's political landscape; writer Xi...
14 Touko 201545min
Free Thinking - Dante's Divine Comedy
To mark Dante's birth 750 years ago, Philip Dodd chairs a Landmark discussion about his poem The Divine Comedy, with Prue Shaw, author of 'Reading Dante', scholar Nick Havely, the poet Sean O'Brien an...
13 Touko 201543min
Free Thinking - Gut Instinct
Matthew Sweet is joined by former Labour strategist Alastair Campbell, epidemiologist and advocate for a healthy gut Tim Spector, journalist Michael Goldfarb, and Dr Luke Evans to consider the role ou...
12 Touko 201544min
Free Thinking - Anne Enright, Christopher Hampton 07May15
Anne Enright, Ireland's first Laureate for Fiction, talks to Anne McElvoy about her new novel The Green Road. The economist Richard Layard and Professor of Psychology David M. Clark discuss the econom...
7 Touko 201544min
Free Thinking - Antony Sher
Philip Dodd in extended conversation with the actor Antony Sher whose recent roles include Willy Loman and Falstaff.
6 Touko 201544min
Free Thinking - Sir Thomas Browne
Matthew Sweet talks to Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Claire Preston and Gavin Francis about the mind-adventures of doctors in time and space. Sir Thomas Browne was a man fascinated by everything from nature...
5 Touko 201544min
Free Thinking - Julian Barnes
Anne McElvoy is joined by the Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes to discuss the painters he admires, and his new collection of essays on 19th and 20th century artists. The Pakistani novelist an...
30 Huhti 201544min
Free Thinking - Everyman
Philip Dodd reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman with Elaine Storkey, Michael Arditti & Tim Stanley and also talks to the the play’s choreographer Javier De Fruto...
29 Huhti 201545min
