Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment
Masha Gessen has traced the lives of 4 Russians born as the Soviet Union crumbled. Daniel Beer won the Cundill History Prize for his history of punishment in Tsarist times. Mary Dejevsky writes and re...
5 Dec 201744min
Ken Burns – Flash photography - Joy
Matthew Sweet discusses the Vietnam War with the film maker Ken Burns who has spent the last decade making a monumental documentary about America's ill fated war in South East Asia. The award winninng...
30 Nov 201744min
Gentrification
New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. Plus artist Lucinda Rogers on depicting changes to a London market, a new report into prosperity and New Generation Thinker Al...
30 Nov 201743min
Free Thinking – David Willetts plus does scandal drive social change?
The Rt Hon Lord David Willetts talks to Philip Dodd about universities. The UK Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014, his new book considers both the history and the global role they...
28 Nov 201744min
Free Thinking – Religious Belief
Philip Dodd looks at 2000 years of Arab Christians, at the modern rise of Pentecostalism and a novel depicting a man who decides to build a new church. Laura Premack from Lancaster University research...
23 Nov 201743min
Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith share visions of the future with Rana Mitter. Plus former Australian PM Kevin Rudd on power and what images does Finland conjure 100 years after independence? We hear from P...
22 Nov 201744min
Free Thinking – Being Human: Lost and Found in the Archives
New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott consider how archives come to life with events from the Being Human Festival including klezmer music, stories from conflict in Northern Ireland a...
21 Nov 201744min
Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.
Stories of objects, ghosts and histories lost and found recorded on location in Portsmouth's most haunted house, the site of a sacrifice in Canterbury and at the TfL Lost Luggage Office. Presenter Mat...
17 Nov 201744min
