Proms Extra: Europe in Writing
Novelist Lawrence Norfolk makes a selection of European writers who have considered the idea of ‘Europe’, with readings performed by Peter Marinker. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Nandini Das.
1 Aug 201721min
Proms Extra: Opium and Creativity in the 19th c.
From Thomas De Quincy via Coleridge to Berlioz, a second-generation opium addict, Daisy Hay and Richard Davenport-Hines discuss why drugs were thought integral to creativity first in England and later...
24 Juli 201727min
Proms Extra: Music and Moods
Thomas Dixon, Director of the Centre for the History of Emotions, and musicologist Wiebke Thormählen look at mood: how composers and writers have engaged with themes of sentimentality, happiness and s...
18 Juli 201720min
Proms Extra - Deep Time
Rana Mitter talks to geologist Iain Stewart and geographer Nicholas Crane about the concept of "Deep Time".
17 Juli 201739min
Free Thinking: Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy
Simon Heffer, novelist and co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign Stella Duffy, New Generation Thinker Will Abberley and the writer and sociologist Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet and an audience ...
13 Juli 201752min
Free Thinking: Art in the Age of Black Power; History of Racist Ideas in US
Tate Modern offers a retrospective on the Art of the Black Power Movement in America and explores how 'Black Art' was defined by artists across the United States and its interplay with the civil right...
12 Juli 201744min
Free Thinking - Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium. Part of Gay Britannia.
Shahidha Bari discusses LGBTQ in the history of philosophy.As part of the BBC's Queer Icons series Philosopher Sophie-Grace Chappell discusses Plato's Symposium, and novelist Adam Mars-Jones talks abo...
11 Juli 201754min
Free Thinking – Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Heer Ranjha. Queer Icons: Sappho. Part of Gay Britannia
The Punjabi "Romeo and Juliet" is explored at Bradford Lit Fest plus New Generation Thinker Catherine Fletcher talks to Jonathan Dollimore about his memoir and the influence of the Centre for the Stud...
6 Juli 201743min
