Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking – Landmark: Lorraine Hansberry
With two plays by Lorraine Hansberry being staged Philip Dodd examines her achievement
Free Thinking -Teenage life: David and Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine, Iroise Dumontheil, Simon Stephens
Matthew Sweet, David & Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine, Iroise Dumontheil, Simon Stephens
Free Thinking - Star Wars. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Ruth Scurr on John Aubrey. Beowulf.
Anne McElvoy talks to Christopher Hampton & Adjoa Andoh about Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Free Thinking - Cities and Safety
Philip Dodd rereads Conrad's The Secret Agent and considers what a safe city means now.
Free Thinking - Northern Lights Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries
Colm Toibin, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ellen Wettmark join Matthew Sweet.
Free Thinking - Must The Arts Be Relevant?
Mark Baldwin, Catherine Wood, Jennifer Walshe, Sarah Kent and Vayu Naidu debate the arts.
Free Thinking - Northern Lights: crime fiction and cold settings
Margaret Atwood, Arnaldur Indriadason and MJ McGrath talk about crime fiction and cold.
Free Thinking Festival: Northern Lights: Joanne Harris on the Norse god Loki
Joanne Harris and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough discuss the god Loki and Norse beliefs.
Free Thinking - Mein Kampf; Larissa MacFarquhar; Julia Margaret Cameron
Anna Fox and Chantal Joffe discuss Julia Margaret Cameron plus altruism's wilder shores.
Free Thinking - Kenzaburo Oe, Artist and Empire at Tate Britain, Japan and Cool Now
Philip Dodd reviews the newly translated novel from Nobel prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.
