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)

Free Thinking - Eroticism & Utopia

Free Thinking - Eroticism & Utopia

Dylan Evans tells Matthew Sweet about his experimental community in the Scottish Highlands and why the Utopia Experiment failed. They are joined by Elaine Barker who has looked at communities set up b...

10 Feb 201545min

Free Thinking - Greece & Russia

Free Thinking - Greece & Russia

Anne McElvoy assesses reports that members of the new Greek government are rediscovering age-old links between Greece and Russia. With Roderic Lynne, former British ambassador to Moscow; Mary Dejevsky...

5 Feb 201543min

Free Thinking - Paul Muldoon, Roy Foster. Rona Munro: 4 Feb15

Free Thinking - Paul Muldoon, Roy Foster. Rona Munro: 4 Feb15

Poet Paul Muldoon explores the history of Ireland in his new collection, One Thousand Things Worth Knowing. Historian Roy Foster's latest book is Vivid Faces: the Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1...

4 Feb 201544min

Free Thinking - Eddie Marsan

Free Thinking - Eddie Marsan

Andrew O'Hagan talks to Matthew Sweet about identity, capturing memories and the impact of war in his new novel The Illuminations. Eddie Marsan talks about creating his character in the new film Stil...

3 Feb 201544min

Free Thinking - Race in America

Free Thinking - Race in America

Joyce Carol Oates new novel The Sacrifice depicts an act of racial violence which shocks a New Jersey town. Selma dramatises on film the life of Martin Luther King. Timberlake Wertenbaker's new play J...

29 Jan 201543min

Free Thinking - Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem

Free Thinking - Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem

Surgeon Henry Marsh and critic Susannah Clapp review the opening of Tom Stoppard's 'The Hard Problem' at the National Theatre tonight. Matthew Sweet is also joined by musician and neuroscientist Dani...

28 Jan 201544min

Free Thinking - Holocaust

Free Thinking - Holocaust

Rana Mitter talks to Richard J Evans' about his new book The Third Reich in History and Memory which reflects on how racist theories of Empire, promulgated over centuries, provided fertile ground for ...

27 Jan 201545min

Free Thinking - Cities & Resilience

Free Thinking - Cities & Resilience

New Generation Thinker Daisy Hay talks to Anne McElvoy about the relationship between Disraeli and his wife. Judith Rodin discusses cities and disaster planning with Ricky Burdett. Glass artist Brian ...

22 Jan 201544min

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