Elites.
Matthew Sweet discusses elites and their role in contemporary politics, with Douglas Carswell, MP for Clacton;Professor David Runciman, Head of the Department of Politics & International Studies at th...
30 Nov 201645min
The Weird. Science and Art at FACT. Japanese film Your Name.
Wierd fiction presents the universe as an irrational place, totally indifferent to human concerns. Is 'the wierd' a more general approach that can bextended beyond fiction to encompass the other arts,...
29 Nov 201645min
Schiller's Mary Stuart; Günter Grass. Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves.
Juliet Stephenson and Lia Williams decide which role to play on the toss of a coin in Robert Icke's version of Schiller's Mary Stuart at the Almeida. The director explains why. Just before he died in ...
24 Nov 201645min
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith talks dance, depicting teenage friendships and US/UK differences with Philip Dodd as her new novel Swing Time is published in Britain and BBC TV dramatises her book NW starring Nikki Amuka...
23 Nov 201644min
Free Thinking - Beards. Listening. Masculinity.
Matthew Sweet tries to separate out the clichés from the reality when it comes to male masculinity in 2016 with the director of the forthcoming Being A Man festival at London’s Southbank and Josh Appi...
22 Nov 201645min
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
