Free Thinking - Yael Farber & Liberalism
Yael Farber directs Richard Armitage in the Crucible at the Old Vic. She talks to Philip Dodd about fear, conspiracy and her South African roots. Also Liberalism past and present. Edmund Fawcett autho...
2 Jul 201445min
Free Thinking - Woods in War and Peace
From Paul Nash paintings of blasted tree stumps in the first world war to today's commemorative planting: Paul Gough, Gabriel Hemery and Gail Ritchie join Samira Ahmed to explore woods and trees in wa...
1 Jul 201444min
Free Thinking - Balancing Power in World War One
Jonathan Powell and historians Margaret MacMillan, Orlando Figes and Adam Tooze explore the Great Powers with Anne McElvoy. The First World War shattered the power balance in Europe. As we confront an...
26 Jun 201443min
Free Thinking - Barbara Kruger & Laurie Penny
Samira Ahmed discusses feminism with American artist Barbara Kruger and journalist Laurie Penny;and cartoonist Posy Simmonds talks about the role of cartoonists responding to politics and internation...
25 Jun 201444min
Free Thinking - The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared in Blackwoods Magazine in August and September 1915 and depicts Europe on the edge of war in May and June 1914. It quickly became popular reading in the trenches a...
24 Jun 201444min
Free Thinking - Libertarianism & Trevor Paglen
A new collection of Ranter writings from the English Civil War sheds light on their extreme libertarian views. Anne McElvoy is joined by the book's editor Nigel Smith. Plus journalist Rod Liddle and C...
19 Jun 201445min
Free Thinking - Sean Scully & Colour
Philip Dodd talks to the artist, Sean Scully, about his latest show and explores our perception of colour with neuroscientist Jamie Ward and fashion expert, Caroline Cox.
18 Jun 201444min
Free Thinking - Radical Bookshops
Matthew Sweet talks to Philip Hensher, who's novel The Emperor Waltz draws together stories about a man who founds the first gay bookshop in London, a young painter who joins the Bauhaus and a woman f...
17 Jun 201445min
