BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Depicting AIDS in Drama

Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience

Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.

Dame Sheila Hancock , viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer discuss endings

A poet, crime writer, theologian, marine biologist and Matthew Sweet explore darkness

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician

Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.

Matthew Sweet & Daniel Postgate, musicians Sandra Kerr & Neil Brand, critic Samira Ahmed

Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes

Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes

Matthew Sweet & guests including Glenda Jackson on John Schlesinger's love triangle film