Free Thinking - Political and Bardic Traditions in Wales: 23 June 15
Matthew Sweet is in Cardiff to examine the role of the Left in Welsh politics and its bearing on today's debate about nationalism hearing from In Cardiff Matthew Sweet is joined by Professor Daniel Wi...
23 Juni 201544min
Free Thinking - Muriel Spark, Digital Life, Diversity in British Poetry: 18 June 15
Rana Mitter talks to Laurence Scott about living in a digital world Channel 4's Humans and explores the writing of Muriel Spark with Dr Sarah Dillon as Spark's novel The Driver's Seat is adapted by La...
18 Juni 201544min
Free Thinking - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: 17 June 15
Geoff Dyer reviews Milan Kundera's first novel in 12 years The Festival of Insignificance. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks to Philip Dodd about confronting religious violence
17 Juni 201545min
Free Thinking - John Boorman; 16 June 2015
Director John Boorman talks to Matthew Sweet about his new film Queen and Country and its place in a career that includes Deliverance and Excalibur as well as Hope and Glory
16 Juni 201544min
Free Thinking - Othello, Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger reflects on his writing, and German history, in his latest book New Selected Poems. New Generation Thinker Danielle Thom and the historian and columnist Tim Stanley, join...
11 Juni 201545min
Free Thinking - Saul Bellow
Martin Amis, Zachary Leader and Sarah Churchwell join Matthew Sweet to discuss Saul Bellow and his masterpiece, Herzog with readings by Kerry Shale.
10 Juni 201544min
Free Thinking - Carsten Höller, freaks and fairground
Matthew Sweet has a go on Carsten Höller's slide at the Hayward Gallery with arts critic Charlotte Mullins and discusses freaks and fairgrounds with Dr Helen Davies, Vanessa Toulmin, Director of the N...
9 Juni 201544min
Susan Abulhawa - Gregory Tate - Eugenia Cheng
Anne McElvoy discusses maths and music with Mathematician Eugenia Cheng. Susan Abulhawa talks about her latest book The Blue Between Sky and Water. And, New Generation Thinker Gregory Tate shares his...
4 Juni 201528min
