Davos Discussions. Shobana Jeyasingh. New Generation Thinker Seán Williams
Anne McElvoy explores topics discussed at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos - she's joined by former Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander, economist Liam Halligan and ...
26 Jan 201744min
Free Thinking: Oscar Nominations; T2 Trainspotting; Denial
On the day of the Oscar nominations, Matthew Sweet is joined by critics Dana Stevens and Ryan Gilbey and writer Christopher Frayling to survey the last year in film. Also, does T2 make any sense if yo...
24 Jan 201745min
Free Thinking - Victorian Bodies, Citizens of Everywhere
Rana Mitter talks Victorian bodies with Kathryn Hughes from Darwin's beard to whether George Eliot had milkmaid's hands. Stanley Price explains how James Joyce and Italo Svevo forged a firm friendship...
19 Jan 201744min
Free Thinking - The influence of the British Black Art movement.
Artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Eddie Chambers and Harold Offeh talk to Anne McElvoy about their art and the influence of the British Black Art movement - which began around the time of the First N...
18 Jan 201744min
Free Thinking: The War of the Worlds sequel, Eimear McBride
Matthew Sweet talks to Stephen Baxter about his sequel to HG Wells's novel War Of The Worlds, which was first serialised in 1897 and imagined an England invaded by Martians. Stephen Baxter's novel, wh...
17 Jan 201745min
Free Thinking - Chibundu Onuzo; Nadeem Aslam. Lockwood Kipling's art.
Anne McElvoy talks to Nadeem Aslam and Chibundu Onuzo about their novels set in Pakistan and Nigeria which follow characters who have to find safe places to live following violent uprisings; Alex Evan...
12 Jan 201744min
Free Thinking: The Arts of Running
We've been runnning for two million years give or take. Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore contemporary running as solitary inspiration and communal activity with the Geographer and 1999 Scottis...
11 Jan 201743min
Free Thinking: La La Land and Hollywood - past and present
Agent to stars including Humphrey Bogart, Clancy Sigal looks back at the absurdities of the 1950s movie business. Catherine Wheatley and Larushka Ivan Zadeh discuss the new musical La La Land starring...
11 Jan 201745min
