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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Free Thinking - Yael Farber & Liberalism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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