Arts & Ideas

Arts & Ideas

Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.

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Beastly Politics

Beastly Politics

From pension schemes for police force dogs to political rights - can other animals be regarded as members of our democratic communities, with rights to political consideration, representation or even ...

25 Nov 202013min

Bedrooms

Bedrooms

From sleeping space to work space? Matthew Sweet is joined by historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith, expert on the suffragettes and a history of sex Fern Riddell, author of The Four-Dimensional Hum...

24 Nov 202044min

Byron, celebrity and fan mail

Byron, celebrity and fan mail

Corin Throsby looks at the extraordinary fan mail received by the poet Lord Byron. The New Generation Thinkers scheme is ten years old in 2020. Jointly run by BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research ...

24 Nov 202014min

Should biographers imitate their subjects?

Should biographers imitate their subjects?

Would you don a diving suit or take a drug in a quest to understand the life of someone else? "Following in the footsteps" is an obsession for biographers as they travel the world to bring their subje...

23 Nov 202013min

Democracy, Hong Kong and USA

Democracy, Hong Kong and USA

Democracy, Hong Kong and USA Free ThinkingHong Kong has seen elections postponed, pro-democracy protesters arrested and a sweeping new national security law imposed by Beijing this year outlawing sedi...

19 Nov 202044min

Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

Teaching writing - mentors Helen Mort and Blake Morrison compare notes. Plus as Georges Perec's memoir I Remember is published in English for the first time, we look at the rules of writing proposed b...

18 Nov 202045min

New Thinking: Films and Research

New Thinking: Films and Research

Melting glaciers, cacophonous refugee camps, voices in heads, bathroom altercations and indigenous communities in crisis are the subjects of this year's AHRC Research In Film Awards.Eleanor Rosamund B...

18 Nov 202043min

New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries

New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries

Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant? Des Fitzgerald speaks to researchers investigating the past and future of facial difference and medical intervention and ...

13 Nov 202043min

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