Free Thinking: India/Pakistan: Mohsin Hamid. Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House. Preti Taneja and Sam Goodman
Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, has now written a love story unfolding against today's refugee crisis. He joins Anne McElvoy to explore migration past and present. They're joined...
1 Mar 201743min
Free Thinking - Japan Now Festival at the British Library.
New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding meets novelist Yoko Tawada, filmmaker Momoko Ando, Elmer Luke editor of a new series of chapbooks and Japanologist Alex Kerr.Alex Kerr is the author of Lost ...
28 Feb 201744min
Free Thinking: 'Play' in urban design, Gillian Allnutt
Philip Dodd considers the importance of 'play' in the way our city centres are designed, built, look and feel in the 21st century with architect Stephen Witherford, social anthropologist Clare Melhuis...
23 Feb 201744min
Soil Stories Old and New
Matthew Sweet talks to poet and writer Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, environmental scientist, Jules Pretty and geologist, Andrew Scott, and historians Matthew Kelly and Philip Coupland about Soil and Cultur...
22 Feb 201744min
Free Thinking - Shakespeare in cartoons; Jess Phillips; Sidney Nolan's Australian legends.
MP Jess Phillips on life in the public eye. Plus Ned Kelly, Lady Macbeth, one once flesh and blood, the other imagined into being, yet both have done sterling work as ciphers to the human condition. A...
21 Feb 201744min
Free Thinking: Hull: A trip down memory lane.
Matthew Sweet visits Hull - the city where he grew up - and seeks out Basil Kirchin's sound world, Richard Bean's version of Hull during the Civil War and the re-opened Ferens Art Gallery where he use...
16 Feb 201744min
Free Thinking: Martin Luther- fundamentalist reactionary or enlightened creator of our modern world
Its 500 years since the German friar, Martin Luther, challenged the authority of the Pope and sparked the Reformation. The violent upheavals that followed have tended to obscure his character, his bel...
16 Feb 20171h 16min
Free Thinking: Paolozzi; Daniel Dennett
Dubbed the "godfather of British pop art", Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is the subject of an exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery. Philip Dodd and his guests art historians Richard Cork and Judi...
15 Feb 201743min
