Free Thinking - Tim Minchin, David Cronenberg
Canadian filmmaker and originator of the body horror genre, David Cronenberg covers topics as wide ranging as consumption, cancer, and creativity as he talks about his debut novel and new film. Shami ...
8 Okt 201445min
Free Thinking Festival - Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's finest writers, whose books explore issues such as Catholicism, immigration and homosexuality. This month he has published Nora Webster - a novel set in Ireland in the ...
7 Okt 201443min
Free Thinking - Matthew Barzun
At a time when the special relationship between the UK and the US is under particular scrutiny, Anne McElvoy talks to the American Ambassador to Britain, Matthew Barzun, about the politics of power an...
2 Okt 201445min
Free Thinking - Ai Weiwei at Blenheim
Rana Mitter has a first-night review of Electra with Kristin Scott Thomas from Professor Edith Hall and Susannah Clapp; historian Andrew Roberts talks about his new biography of Napoleon and Katie Hil...
1 Okt 201444min
Free Thinking - Neel Mukherjee
Matthew Sweet examines our contradictory attitudes to China and it's culture with the film historian Sir Christopher Frayling and the Chinese ceramics expert Stacey Pierson, who has been to see the Br...
30 Sep 201444min
Free Thinking - Thomas Ostermeier
As the Schaubühne Berlin's production of Henrik Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People' opens at The Barbican, Anne McElvoy speaks to the play's director Thomas Ostermeier. American novelist Joseph O'Neill d...
25 Sep 201444min
Free Thinking - Francis Fukuyama
Fukuyama and Howard Jacobson are interviewed by Philip Dodd. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama published an essay which he titled “The End of History?" He's just published Political Order and Political Decay...
24 Sep 201444min
Free Thinking - Language
Steven Pinker's research at Harvard is into language and cognition. His new book The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century explores the links between syntax and id...
23 Sep 201443min
