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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Episoder(2000)

Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'

Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'

Commentator Douglas Murray, journalist Bari Weiss and writer Ed Husain join Philip Dodd to explore the 'Intellectual Dark Web'. Their YouTube videos and podcasts receive millions of views and download...

13 Jun 201844min

Mark Lilla. Owen Hatherley. Gulzaar Barn.

Mark Lilla. Owen Hatherley. Gulzaar Barn.

Mark Lilla could be called the conscience of liberal America. He talks to Anne McElvoy about life after identity politics. 2018 New Generation Thinker Gulzaar Barn discusses whether paying people for ...

12 Jun 201844min

The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President

The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President

Matthew Sweet meets with physician, anthropologist, author and Jimmy Carter's former 'drugs czar', Peter Bourne. Comparing his life to the title character in the film Forrest Gump, the trained psychia...

7 Jun 201844min

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley

From people-watching with Aristotle in a London park, to meeting in a luxury hotel at midnight to discuss the fate of a continent, to using a lunchtime five-a-side game as the starting point for a med...

7 Jun 201844min

The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning

The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning

Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja share thoughts about translation. Plus Anne McElvoy will be joined by Professor Nichola McLelland and Vicky Gough of the British Councl to examine why, ...

6 Jun 201844min

American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.

American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.

Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, the careers picked by psychopaths, and American writer Gary Lachman join Matthew Sweet.Kevin Powers' prize winning novel The Yellow Birds explored the experience of...

1 Jun 201844min

Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written about Auden, Dostoevsky and tragedy. At Hay Festival he talks to poet Simon Armitage about the imprint of landscapes in Yorkshire, West Wales...

30 Mai 201844min

Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas

Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas

The lure of conspiracy theories, the power of fiction to translate history and the public role of writer are debated as Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with the Colombian writer Juan Gabrie...

29 Mai 201844min

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