Free Thinking - Balancing Power in World War One
Jonathan Powell and historians Margaret MacMillan, Orlando Figes and Adam Tooze explore the Great Powers with Anne McElvoy. The First World War shattered the power balance in Europe. As we confront an...
26 Juni 201443min
Free Thinking - Barbara Kruger & Laurie Penny
Samira Ahmed discusses feminism with American artist Barbara Kruger and journalist Laurie Penny;and cartoonist Posy Simmonds talks about the role of cartoonists responding to politics and internation...
25 Juni 201444min
Free Thinking - The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared in Blackwoods Magazine in August and September 1915 and depicts Europe on the edge of war in May and June 1914. It quickly became popular reading in the trenches a...
24 Juni 201444min
Free Thinking - Libertarianism & Trevor Paglen
A new collection of Ranter writings from the English Civil War sheds light on their extreme libertarian views. Anne McElvoy is joined by the book's editor Nigel Smith. Plus journalist Rod Liddle and C...
19 Juni 201445min
Free Thinking - Sean Scully & Colour
Philip Dodd talks to the artist, Sean Scully, about his latest show and explores our perception of colour with neuroscientist Jamie Ward and fashion expert, Caroline Cox.
18 Juni 201444min
Free Thinking - Radical Bookshops
Matthew Sweet talks to Philip Hensher, who's novel The Emperor Waltz draws together stories about a man who founds the first gay bookshop in London, a young painter who joins the Bauhaus and a woman f...
17 Juni 201445min
Free Thinking - Eimear McBride & Nathan Filer
Prize-winning first novelists Eimear McBride and Nathan Filer join Anne McElvoy to discuss literary experimentation. Matt Thorne gives us a first night review of the European premiere of Anne Washburn...
12 Juni 201445min
Free Thinking - Community & The Human Figure
The director of the Hayward Ralph Rugoff, former principal Royal Ballet dancer Deborah Bull and neuroscientist Professor Patrick Haggard explore presentations of and research into the human body. And ...
11 Juni 201445min
