Arts & Ideas

Arts & Ideas

Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.

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Free Thinking - David H Hwang & Eleanor Marx

Free Thinking - David H Hwang & Eleanor Marx

David Henry Hwang tells Philip about his 2007 drama Yellow Face, reflecting life of Asian American and now showing in London; biographer Rachel Holmes and New Generation thinker, historian Emma Griffi...

7 Touko 201444min

Free Thinking - Charles Kingsley's Water Babies

Free Thinking - Charles Kingsley's Water Babies

As a musical version of The Water Babies opens Simon Heffer and New Generation Thinker Corin Throsby discuss the ideas of Charles Kingsley. Matthew Sweet talks about literary satire with novelist Edwa...

6 Touko 201445min

Free Thinking - Thom Gunn & Michael Cunningham

Free Thinking - Thom Gunn & Michael Cunningham

Samira Ahmed is joined by poets Paul Farley, Fiona Sampson and Clive Wilmer to discuss Thom Gunn, who died ten years ago. An interview with Michael Cunningham, about his new novel The Snow Queen. Plus...

1 Touko 201447min

Free Thinking,  BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Free Thinking, BBC Radiophonic Workshop

The BBC Radiophonic workshop,opened in 1958 with an aim to experiment and produce original music for various iconic BBC programmes. It was shut down 40 years later by Director General John Birt. In an...

30 Huhti 201443min

Free Thinking - 18th Century Sexual Politics

Free Thinking - 18th Century Sexual Politics

Philip Dodd explores the sexual mores of eighteenth-century England talking to Faramerz Dabhoiwala of Exeter College, Oxford, Joanne Bailey of Oxford Brookes University, David Turner of Swansea Univer...

29 Huhti 201444min

Free Thinking - Banksy + Chris Marker

Free Thinking - Banksy + Chris Marker

Samira Ahmed discusses the ownership of street art with Mary McCarthy, Director of MM Contemporary Arts; Professor Lionel Bently, barrister and copyright expert on intellectual property, and street ar...

24 Huhti 201444min

Free Thinking - Dame Janet Suzman

Free Thinking - Dame Janet Suzman

In extended conversation with Philip Dodd, Dame Janet Suzman talks about her acting and directing and politics in her native South Africa - which goes to the polls on May 7th.

23 Huhti 201445min

Free Thinking - 18th Century Crime and Punishment

Free Thinking - 18th Century Crime and Punishment

Philip Dodd explores 18th century attitudes to the law, crime and punishment with Professor Norman S Poser, Antonia Hodgson, Lucy Powell and Geoffrey Robertson QC.

17 Huhti 201443min

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