Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Free Thinking - Black British History.
Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on Black Britain
Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All
Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch. Plus Victorian amusements.
Free Thinking: Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All
Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch and some Victorian jokes
Landmark: Waverley
Rana Mitter presents a special programme exploring Walter Scott's novel Waverley.
Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant. Yuval Noah Harari.
Linda Grant and Stephen Poliakoff join Philip Dodd to discuss post-World War II Britain.
Free Thinking - Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant; Yuval Noah Harari.
Post second world war Britain is discussed by the TV dramatist, novelist and Philip Dodd.
Whose Book Is it Anyway?
Anne McElvoy and her panel of guests explore the rise of reading in Britain.
Free Thinking - Landmark: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Rana Mitter on the first historical novel, one that invented Scotland and built Britain
Free Thinking - Whose Book Is It Anyway?
Anne McElvoy discusses new research into how, when and why Britons got the reading habit.
Enoch Powell, US Supreme Court, War and Art
With a play about Enoch Powell, the US Supreme Court and the visual language of war.
