Free Thinking: Being Human: What the Archives Reveal
Matthew Sweet visits little known locations in London to meet researchers drawing on archives of the past to cast new light on the present. The Cross Bones Graveyard in Southwark was used in the Midd...
17 Nov 201643min
Free Thinking - Being Human: New Generation Thinkers explore Escape, Lying and Fear.
New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott present a programme looking at new research into supernatural fiction writer Vernon Lee with Francesco Ventrella. Lee used the phrase "iron cur...
16 Nov 201642min
Free Thinking - Being Human Debate at FACT, Liverpool: Man and Animals
French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss famously said that ‘animals are good to think with’. Rana Mitter with Sarah Peverley, Charles Forsdick, Alasdair Cochrane, Eveline de Wolf, Michael Szollosy a...
15 Nov 201658min
Free Thinking - Art Spiegelman. Marina Abramovic. American Pastoral.
Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer prize-winning Maus - a father-son memoir about the Holocaust drawn with cats and mice - is one of the classics of graphic novels. He's now collaborating with the Jazz compose...
10 Nov 201644min
Free Thinking - Black British History.
Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews consider the question what it means to be Black British and how should a wider history be taught and reflected in literature. New...
9 Nov 201642min
Free Thinking: Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All
Matthew Sweet talks to 21st-century novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch about why the 19th century illuminates their writing. And can the Victorians still make us laugh? Cultural historians Fern Rid...
8 Nov 201644min
Free Thinking - Landmark: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Today perhaps, Brand Britain is showing its age, but once upon a time it was nothing less than one of the most dynamic political projects in the world. In a Free Thinking Landmark on Walter Scott's Wa...
3 Nov 201643min
Free Thinking - Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant; Yuval Noah Harari.
A TB clinic in the countryside is the location of Linda Grant's new novel which follows a Jewish brother and sister from the East End who are sent to recover in an institution where the class divide p...
2 Nov 201644min
