Free Thinking: Breaking Free: Landmark - Paradise Lost
Professor John Carey joins New Generation Thinkers Islam Issa and Joe Moshenska and presenter Philip Dodd to discuss Milton's poem, the first version of which was published in 1667. The discussion exp...
5 Maj 201744min
Free Thinking: Breaking Free - Martin Luther’s Revolution. New Research into the Reformation
Rana Mitter looks at new research into the way daily life changed in Britain after the Reformation for Radio 3's series of programmes exploring Martin Luther's Revolution. His guests are:Alec Ryrie, P...
3 Maj 201743min
Free Thinking - Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution
Peter Stanford, Ulinka Rublack and Diarmaid MacCulloch join Anne McElvoy to explore the question Martin Luther - Fundamentalist, Reactionary or Enlightened Creator of the Modern World? The discussion ...
2 Maj 201744min
Free Thinking - Wellcome Book Prize, Civil Wars: Susan Buck-Morss and A.C. Grayling, Louisa Egbunike and Akachi Ezeigbo.
A novel by Maylis de Kerangal which traces a heart transplant is the winner of this year's Wellcome Book Prize and the inspiration for a film out in the UK this week. Also, Anne McElvoy discusses nati...
27 Apr 201743min
Free Thinking - What now for environmentalism? With Paul Kingsnorth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman
Paul Kingsnorth, former deputy-editor of The Ecologist, co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project and author of novels including The Wake and Beast, talks about his changing attitude to the environmenta...
26 Apr 201744min
Free Thinking - Smell: Michele Roberts, A history of dentistry
Michèle Roberts' latest novel evokes Victorian London. Matthew Sweet asks how it smelt and what do museums do to create past smells. Plus a cultural history of dentistry with the medical historian Ric...
25 Apr 201744min
Free Thinking - Landmark: Leaves of Grass
The American poet Mark Doty, Professor Sarah Churchwell and the young British poet Andrew McMillan join Matthew Sweet for a programme dedicated to one of the classics of American poetry, Walt Whitman'...
23 Apr 201743min
Free Thinking – John Irving
Philip Dodd interviews John Irving - author of novels including The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany. His new book is called Avenue of Mysteries and imagines the...
22 Apr 201743min
