Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.
Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo which opens at the National Theatre this week. It draws on the experiences of Norwegian diplomat Mona Juul and he...
20 Sep 201745min
Free Thinking: Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.
Anne Applebaum talks to Anne McElvoy about Russian nationalism and Ukrainian history in a programme exploring the importance of borders and the way identities are bound up with a sense of place. Nick...
15 Sep 201739min
Free Thinking: Social Conservatism, Kathe Kollwitz and John Ashbery
Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna discuss the challenges of art in an age of irony as the work of Käthe Kollwitz goes on display in Birmingham at the Ikon Gallery. Lawrence Norfolk pays tribute to the wo...
14 Sep 201745min
Free Thinking: Washing in public. Sir Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)
Public pools, the "steamie" and the Turkish bath; debates about hygiene and the role and revival of these public spaces are explored by Matthew Sweet and guests as Scottish theatres host a 30th annive...
12 Sep 201744min
Proms Extra: Alan Hollinghurst
The Booker Prize winning novelist, Alan Hollinghurst, talks to Anne McElvoy about the art of fiction and his new book, The Sparsholt Affair Producer: Zahid Warley
4 Sep 201719min
Proms Extra: Lenin
Anne McElvoy is joined by historians Helen Rappaport and Victor Sebestyen to consider the figure of Lenin, as the Proms marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.Victor Sebestyen, author o...
1 Sep 201740min
Proms Extra: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Professor Kathleen Burk, University College London, reflects on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Joanna Cohen. Event hosted by Rana Mitter.
29 Aug 201727min
Proms Extra: Ancient Rome
Matthew Sweet talks to the classicist, writer and stand- up comedian, Natalie Haynes, about the glory that was Rome -with readings by the actor, Peter Marinker,from Virgil, Sulpicia, Gibbon and Dicken...
29 Aug 201739min
