Free Thinking: Medieval Manuscripts. Emma Donoghue.
Medieval illuminated manuscripts are our key to European art for hundreds of years but also to political and social movements. Christopher de Hamel, keeper of possibly the oldest gospel in the Latin w...
22 Sep 201644min
Free Thinking: American Power? Suzan-Lori Parks. Gary Younge. Abstract Expressionism.
Pulitzer prize winning American dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks talks to Philip Dodd about putting on stage the story of a slave fighting against those seeking to abolish slavery. Journalist Gary Younge di...
21 Sep 201644min
Free Thinking: Shelina Janmohamed. Edward Ardizzone's Art. Jewish identity in fiction
Shelina Janmohamed on the modern Muslims whom she calls "Generation M". New novels by Amos Oz, Jonathan Safran Foer and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen explore aspects of Jewish identity and the history of Israe...
20 Sep 201645min
Free Thinking: Energy and Landscape: Edward Burtynsky, Ella Hickson
Large-scale photographs showing the impact of humans on urban and natural environments are discussed by Canadian artist and 2005 TED prize winner Edward Burtynsky. Ella Hickson's new play Oil, directe...
15 Sep 201644min
Free Thinking - Thames Estuary Festival, Jatinder Verma, Arne Næss
From Dickens, through wartime defences to Doctor Who - as a new festival looks at the landscape of the Thames Estuary, Matthew Sweet is joined by the author Rachel Lichtenstein and photographer Chloe ...
14 Sep 201645min
Free Thinking - Aphra Behn. 1066 and the South Coast. Mark Thompson
Playwright, poet, spy. Anne McElvoy discusses Aphra Behn with Professor Elaine Hobby and director Loveday Ingram who has given Behn's play The Rover a South American carnival setting at the RSC. Plus ...
13 Sep 201644min
Free Thinking - Rio, addiction, and saying the unsayable
Anne McElvoy looks ahead to the Rio Olympics discussing Brazilian culture with author, politics lecturer and former National Secretary for Public Security Luis Eduardo Suárez and with Dr Edward King f...
14 Juli 201644min
Free Thinking - War: Tear Gas. New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri on the Spanish Civil War. Iraq.
Philip Dodd explores war and modern memory with former Colonel Lincoln Jopp MC, the historians, Lloyd Clark, Anna Feigenbaum and Ana Carden-Coyne and the New Generation Thinker, Anindya Raychaudhuri.L...
13 Juli 201644min
