Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment
Stephen Frears, Matthew Reisz & Lucy Bolton join Matthew Sweet to look at this 1966 film.
Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real.
Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real
St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
Rana Mitter discusses three major philosophers of religion and self-development
St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
Rana Mitter discusses three major theorists of religion and self-development
Going Underground
Shahidha Bari and guests discuss caves: from Nottingham to Borneo, in art and stories.
Experimental writing
Shahidha Bari, Matthew Herbert, the Goldsmith Prize winners and poet Stephen Sexton
New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022
Benjamin Franklin in the Lakes, the former slave who invented light bulbs, ganzflicker
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Jane Smiley, Christopher Prendergast, Jayne Haynes, Marie Darrieussecq with Matthew Sweet
George Bernard Shaw
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950).
