Free Thinking - School Report
Anne McElvoy hears from young people involved in the BBC's School Report Day. School children who have come to north-east England from other countries describe what home means. Writer Bidisha and soci...
19 Maalis 201544min
Free Thinking - Sociology in the 21 century
Does the discipline of Sociology still have a role to play in the 21st century?To examine where we are at with Sociology in 2015, Philip Dodd is joined by three leading practitioners, the LSE's Richar...
18 Maalis 201545min
Free Thinking - Madness/Civilisation
Matthew Sweet talks to Andrew Scull, author of Madness in Civilisation and Lisa Appignanesi about how different cultures around the world and through time have dealt with what we might call madness, i...
17 Maalis 201545min
Free Thinking - Tom McCarthy
Anne McElvoy looks at what we mean by the idea of fairness. She also talks to novelist Tom McCarthy who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel C. His new work Satin Island follows a man wo...
12 Maalis 201545min
Free Thinking - Hanif Kureishi
An extended interview in which Philip Dodd is joined by novelist, screenwriter and dramatist Hanif Kureishi. He discusses subjects including immigration, sexuality and mortality.
11 Maalis 201544min
Free Thinking - Age of Earthquakes
Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar and Hans Ulrich Obrist explain the Extreme Present to Matthew Sweet. Their co-authored book The Age of Earthquakes builds on Marshall McLuhan's analysis of how technolog...
10 Maalis 201544min
Free Thinking - Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro talks to Anne McElvoy about his latest book – The Buried Giant. And as two separate productions of Sophocles’ tragedy, Antigone, are performed on stage in London – the playwrig...
5 Maalis 201545min
Free Thinking - Against Democracy
Churchill famously commented that ‘democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' Rana Mitter and his guests David Runciman, Profe...
4 Maalis 201544min
