成人快手 Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other—2014 Festival

Rana Mitter explores the links between the behaviour of animals and humans.

8/10 Naomi Paxton on the movement for a women's theatre from the 1890s to the start of WWI.

John Lanchester discusses the wealth gap, banking and how we understand the economy.

7/10 Will Abberley explores the evolution of language and what we learn from science fiction.

Turkish writer Elif Shafak joins Anne McElvoy in conversation at Sage Gateshead.

6/10 Alasdair Cochrane of Sheffield University argues that animals should have greater rights.

David Almond, Eliza Carthy and Alison Light debate working class history with Anne McElvoy

5/10 Alun Withey explains what shaving tells us about medical advances and military strategy.

4/10 Daisy Hay considers the way Benjamin Disraeli used his private life for political ends.

Historian Helen Castor and biographer Laura Thompson discuss myths, mysteries and evidence