Free Thinking - Free Speech on Campus. Acting Arthur Miller
Antony Sher and the stars of next Sunday's Drama on 3: Death of a Salesman, Zoë Wanamaker and David Suchet, discuss acting Arthur Miller with Philip Dodd. Also, are university campuses becoming place...
7 Okt 201544min
Free Thinking - Suffragette. Thatcherism and Conservatism now. James Fenton.
James Fenton discusses his career as a poet and journalist ahead of collecting the PEN Pinter Prize 2015 in a ceremony tonight. New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton researches the plays performed by Su...
6 Okt 201545min
Free Thinking - James Shapiro, Macbeth on Film, Barrie Keeffe, East End museum
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro discusses 1606 - the year Macbeth was written. And Matthew Sweet is joined by Sonia Massai and Andrew Hilton to review the new film starring Michael Fassbender and lo...
1 Okt 201544min
Free Thinking - Populism. Romola Garai on Measure for Measure.
On the final day of Jeremy Corbyn's first Labour Party conference as Leader, Philip Dodd presents a discussion about populism in politics, with philosopher Roger Scruton, historian Justin Champion, jo...
30 Sep 201544min
Free Thinking - Margaret Atwood, Yuval Harari, Celts
Margaret Atwood's new novel imagines the future of sexual desire in a social experiment. Professors Yuval Harari and Barry Cunliffe explore the long history of mankind. And Rana Mitter visits the new ...
25 Sep 201544min
Free Thinking - Edmund de Waal, Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk, novelist and Nobel Prize winner is in conversation with Edmund de Waal - the potter and best-selling author of the Hare with Amber Eyes - who has been on a quest to explore the history of...
24 Sep 201544min
Free Thinking - Sleep and Creativity
Rana Mitter explores why we sleep with pioneering researcher into the body clock, Russell Foster; Matt Berry, actor, comedian and writer who wrestles with insomnia; Brigitte Steger who has explored Ja...
23 Sep 201543min
Free Thinking - Autism, The Financial Crisis, The Fallen Woman: 22 September 15
Professor Lynda Nead has curated an exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London which looks at depictions of "the Fallen Woman" in Victorian England by artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Richa...
23 Sep 201544min
