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:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration

Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration

With an audience at the British Library, Professor Bhabha gives a short talk and discusses ideas about nations and a postcolonial approach to politics, literature and history. Shahidha Bari hosts in a...

15 Mai 20191h 14min

Rivers and geopolitics

Rivers and geopolitics

The worlds large water infrastructure projects often result in geo-political flashpoints - Rana Mitter hears from Majed Akhter about problems from the US to Pakistan while Dustin Garrick outlines a wa...

14 Mai 201945min

Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.

Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.

Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns and Sergio Leone with Christopher Frayling and Samira Ahmed. They also look at the film worlds of Stanley Kubrick as an exhibition runs at London's Design Museum...

10 Mai 201945min

Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.

Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.

Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer by Marion Turner called Chaucer: A European Life and talks to writer Bernardine Evaristo about her depiction of 12 characters aged 12 to 93 in her novel G...

8 Mai 201948min

Wolfson History Prize Discussion.

Wolfson History Prize Discussion.

Rana Mitter and an audience at the British Academy hear from the six historians on this year's shortlist. The books are: Building Anglo-Saxon England by John Blair Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecu...

8 Mai 20191h 11min

Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model

Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model

Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott on the 19th century writers who shaped the idea of America. 1819 was the year that Herman Melville, Walt Whitman...

7 Mai 201950min

Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize

Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize

Kierkegaard humiliated the woman he was due to marry by publicly breaking the engagement - yet one of his most important books is a detailed analysis of the meaning of love. Socrates loved asking the ...

2 Mai 201944min

Landmark: Audre Lorde

Landmark: Audre Lorde

Poet Jackie Kay & performer Selina Thompson plus Jonathan Rollins and Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins the children of Audre Lorde discuss the influence of the US writer & civil rights activist whose work cons...

30 Apr 201953min

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