Free Thinking - Hay Festival: David Brooks, Azar Nafisi and Tom Holland
Rana Mitter and guests New York Times journalist David Brooks, the Iranian novelist Azar Nafisi and historian Tom Holland discuss the concept of humility. Vice or virtue? (Recorded earlier this week a...
27 Maj 201544min
Free Thinking - Theodore Zeldin, Mona Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy argues the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. Oxford scholar Theodore Zeldin celebrates the hidden pleasures of life and one of 2014 New Generation Think...
26 Maj 201544min
Free Thinking - Steve Hilton; Beowulf; The Beaux' Stratagem
Are work and progress making us inhuman? Anne McElvoy is joined by Steve Hilton, a former Senior Advisor to David Cameron, and Peter Fleming, Professor of Business and Society at City University, Lond...
21 Maj 201545min
Free Thinking - Jospeh Stiglitz and Alain Mabanckou
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz discusses income inequality. Novelist Alain Mabanckou reflects on the experiences of the African diaspora in France. Presented by Philip Dodd.
20 Maj 201544min
Free Thinking - Colm Toibin; Mammoth Cloning; Fareed Zakaria
Matthew Sweet is joined by Colm Toibin to discuss the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop; Beth Shapiro on cloning mammoths and Fareed Zakharia, the American news presenter and journalist, makes the case for a...
19 Maj 201544min
Free Thinking - High Society; Xinran; UK elections
A week on from the election, Anne McElvoy turns to three historians - Tim Bale, Krista Cowman and Jon Lawrence - to offer their views on the dramatic changes to the UK's political landscape; writer Xi...
14 Maj 201545min
Free Thinking - Dante's Divine Comedy
To mark Dante's birth 750 years ago, Philip Dodd chairs a Landmark discussion about his poem The Divine Comedy, with Prue Shaw, author of 'Reading Dante', scholar Nick Havely, the poet Sean O'Brien an...
13 Maj 201543min
Free Thinking - Gut Instinct
Matthew Sweet is joined by former Labour strategist Alastair Campbell, epidemiologist and advocate for a healthy gut Tim Spector, journalist Michael Goldfarb, and Dr Luke Evans to consider the role ou...
12 Maj 201544min
