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.

Episoder(2000)

Free Thinking - Flora Thompson & Ruins

Free Thinking - Flora Thompson & Ruins

Richard Mabey discusses his biography of Flora Thompson, author of Lark Rise to Candleford, and choreographer Richard Alston joins Anne McElvoy on the eve of Radio 3's Ravel Day. Plus there’s a discus...

6 Mar 201444min

Free Thinking - Julian Schnabel

Free Thinking - Julian Schnabel

Philip Dodd in conversation with artist and film-maker Julian Schnabel, best known for creating a series of paintings on broken ceramic plates as well as directing films, including The Diving Bell an...

5 Mar 201443min

Free Thinking - Vikings

Free Thinking - Vikings

Matthew Sweet visits the British Museum's Vikings exhibition with the curator Gareth Williams and Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough from Durham University. Lincoln Paine d...

4 Mar 201445min

Free Thinking - Spitting Image

Free Thinking - Spitting Image

Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld talk about the impact of education and religion on success and Anne McElvoy has a first night review of Peter Gill's new play Versailles from historian David Reynolds. Plus ...

27 Feb 201445min

Free Thinking - Wim Wenders on Peace

Free Thinking - Wim Wenders on Peace

Film director Wim Wenders and Australian philosopher Mary Zournazi explain why they believe we need a new visual and moral language for peace. Richard King outlines why he believes taking offence has ...

26 Feb 201443min

Free Thinking - Paul Foot Award

Free Thinking - Paul Foot Award

As Dirty Rotten Scoundrels becomes a musical, Samira Ahmed considers the scoundrel with historian of literature Nandini Das and novelist Nick Harkaway. Danny Dorling talks about the UK housing crisi...

25 Feb 201445min

Free Thinking - France & Algeria

Free Thinking - France & Algeria

Anne McElvoy looks at the relationship between France and its former colonies, talking to David Bellos about his translation of a classic novel depicting the Algerian War, and to Andrew Hussey, whose ...

20 Feb 201445min

Free Thinking - Charlie Chaplin

Free Thinking - Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin's City Lights is ranked by The American Film Institute as one of the best American films ever made. To mark the centenary of Chaplin's iconic tramp character, Matthew Sweet discusses C...

19 Feb 201446min

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