Free Thinking - Art Spiegelman. Marina Abramovic. American Pastoral.
Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer prize-winning Maus - a father-son memoir about the Holocaust drawn with cats and mice - is one of the classics of graphic novels. He's now collaborating with the Jazz compose...
10 Nov 201644min
Free Thinking - Black British History.
Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews consider the question what it means to be Black British and how should a wider history be taught and reflected in literature. New...
9 Nov 201642min
Free Thinking: Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All
Matthew Sweet talks to 21st-century novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch about why the 19th century illuminates their writing. And can the Victorians still make us laugh? Cultural historians Fern Rid...
8 Nov 201644min
Free Thinking - Landmark: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Today perhaps, Brand Britain is showing its age, but once upon a time it was nothing less than one of the most dynamic political projects in the world. In a Free Thinking Landmark on Walter Scott's Wa...
3 Nov 201643min
Free Thinking - Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant; Yuval Noah Harari.
A TB clinic in the countryside is the location of Linda Grant's new novel which follows a Jewish brother and sister from the East End who are sent to recover in an institution where the class divide p...
2 Nov 201644min
Free Thinking - Whose Book Is It Anyway?
Anne McElvoy explores some historic tussles over who read what, when, how and why. Bodleian scholar Dennis Duncan reveals how disputatious monks took the book out of the monastery; the novelist and Ne...
1 Nov 201644min
Free Thinking: Enoch Powell; US Supreme Court; War & Art
New Generation Thinker Chris Harding presents a discussion with writer Chris Hannan and director Roxana Silbert about a new Birmingham Rep play about Enoch Powell. Also James Zirin describes what he c...
27 Okt 201643min
Free Thinking- William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.
Does art have to reflect politics and history in South Africa? Is it harder to make art now than it was in the past? As major exhibitions of South African art open in London and Edinburgh Philip Dod...
27 Okt 201645min
