Proms Plus Literary - Chinese Culture Today
Professor Rana Mitter discusses contemporary Chinese culture with a novelist and film maker Xiaolu Guo and Dr Katie Hill, an expert on Chinese Modern Art. The event was recorded in front of an audienc...
19 Juli 201419min
Free Thinking - Decision Making in the Money Markets
Does emotion or reason dictate the financial markets? Anne McElvoy is joined by Frances Hudson, Global Thematic Strategist at Standard Life Investments; Daniel Ben Ami, financial journalist, author of...
17 Juli 201443min
Free Thinking - Politics and writing in Kenya
Billy Kahora, one of the writers nominated for this year's Caine Prize for African writing joins Philip Dodd to reflect on the way artists in Kenya respond to the political and religious unrest in the...
16 Juli 201443min
Free Thinking - Prisons & Anthropomorphism
Matthew Sweet interviews Karen Joy Fowler author of a novel which looks at the consequences of introducing a primate into a family and the human fascination with anthropomorphism with animal studies e...
15 Juli 201444min
Free Thinking - Virginia Woolf & Richard Flanagan
With Anne McElvoy. Curator Frances Spalding and Dr Alexandra Harris discuss what portaits of Virginia Woolf convey of her character as a new exhibition opens at the National Portrait Gallery. Richard ...
10 Juli 201444min
Free Thinking - History of Pain, Richard III, Animal Rights
Philip Dodd is joined by political commentator Steve Richards to discuss the new production of Richard III which stars Martin Freeman and is set in the 1970s. Historian Joanna Bourke considers changin...
9 Juli 201445min
Free Thinking - The Digital Age & Boyhood
Richard Linklater filmed the actor who stars in Boyhood over 12 years from a 6 year old to a college youth. Matthew Sweet and author Toby Litt review the project and discuss growing up. Artist Cory Ar...
8 Juli 201444min
Free Thinking - Oh What a Lovely Savas
'€˜Oh what a lovely Savas' begins Rana Mitter in this edition of Free Thinking, using the Turkish word for War. Along with Sean McMeekin of the Koc University in Istanbul, the novelist Kamila Shamsie,...
3 Juli 201443min
