The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate
Who decides what’s worth saving and what is culturally significant to protect in wartimes and war zones? The panel, hosted by Anne McElvoy, are:Sir Peter Bazalgette - Chairman of ITV and former Chairm...
7 Nov 201944min
Quatermass
Dr Who collaborators Mark Gatiss & Stephen Moffat, academics Una McCormack & Claire Langhamer and Matthew Kneale join Matthew Sweet to celebrate Nigel Kneale's groundbreaking 1953 BBC TV sci-fi serial...
5 Nov 201955min
Halloween. Ghost Stories
Shahidha Bari's guests include author Kirsty Logan and former League of Gentlemen writer and performer Jeremy Dyson, whose play Ghost Stories is back in the West End. Joining them is the film critic a...
1 Nov 201945min
Cars, Parking and Motorways
Where are we? How did we get here, and where are we going?Our relationship with the self-propelled small metal boxes in which we spend so much of our time is not as simple as it feels.Why did we learn...
30 Okt 201945min
Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham join Matthew Sweet at the British Library in a discussion organised with the Royal Society of Literature.Making art from real events is as old to writing as the...
30 Okt 201944min
Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
Rachel Reeves MP, Hull academic Jane Thomas and New Generation Thinker Katie Cooper discuss the novel South Riding and the writing and politics of Winifred Holtby with Matthew Sweet and an audience in...
24 Okt 201953min
What to Believe
Rana Mitter and guests look at the history of atheism and morality. Alec Ryrie's new book 'Unbelievers: an emotional history of doubt' argues that the rationality arguments for non-belief developed af...
23 Okt 20191h 1min
New Thinking: First Encounters
Should we really be celebrating the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Cortés and European settlers in Mexico? Is this a "first encounter" - and how do you decipher history when there isn't anything ...
23 Okt 20191h
