Free Thinking - Blade Runner. Ghost Stories
Matthew Sweet goes on a ghost hunt in Portsmouth with Karl Bell and is joined by Susan Owens and Stuart Evers to look at hauntings and what they tell us about our fears through the ages. James Burton ...
5 Okt 201741min
Free Thinking - Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst talks to Anne McElvoy and a Proms Extra audience about his new novel The Sparsholt Affair, which traces a family and changing attitudes to sexuality across generations. It's the sixt...
4 Okt 201744min
Free Thinking: The importance of networks; the art of dance.
Niall Ferguson talks to Philip Dodd about a less hierarchical history. Jane Munro looks at Degas's depictions of the human body. Sarah Lamb describes dancing MacMillan's ballets. The Square and the To...
3 Okt 201744min
Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
Poets Michael Symmons Roberts and Helen Mort and academic Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull to discuss the language of love and the politics underpinning Marvell's poem in a special recording...
28 Sep 201743min
Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.
Philip Blond, Eliza Filby, Tom Simpson and Simon Heffer join Rana Mitter to look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now. New Generation Thinkers Eleanor Lybeck and Leah Broad share...
28 Sep 201743min
Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido
Family ties and radicalisation in Kamila Shamsie's novel Home Fire; images of beggars and slaughterhouses in the old postcards collected by John Kasmin, the art dealer who promoted abstract artists in...
26 Sep 201744min
Free Thinking. Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World
The Northern Irish author of Cal and Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty talks to Anne McElvoy about his novel Midwinter Break plus Clair Wills on her research into post war immigration to Britain and the...
21 Sep 201743min
Testosterone. The grey zone. Indian science.
Cordelia Fine debates the effects of testosterone. Adrian Owen explores the “grey zone” of consciousness. Curator Matt Kimberley and Jahnavi Phalkey discuss scientific discoveries made in India and ho...
20 Sep 201744min
