Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, Class in Britain, An Eton Education
With a review of Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey at the National Theatre.
Jane Eyre versus Anne of Green Gables, Parent Power, Georg Baselitz, Flooding in Literature
Anne McElvoy discusses parent power, literary heroines, artist Georg Baselitz and floods.
Atheism and Belief
Philip Dodd discusses religious belief with Terry Eagleton, Peter Watson and Roger Scruton
Spike Jonze's Her, Big Data
Matthew Sweet on Spike Jonze's new film Her, Big Data and the Internet of Things.
Hanif Kureishi
Author Hanif Kureishi in extended interview with Philip Dodd.
The Monocled Mutineer; Roman Krznaric's Empathy Revolution
Matthew Sweet discusses TV series The Monocled Mutineer and First World War archives.
Christine Lagarde
Anne McElvoy explores the arguments of Christine Lagarde's Richard Dimbleby Lecture.
Unrest in Ukraine and protest in Russia
Anne McElvoy discusses unrest in Ukraine and the state of dissent in Russia today.
Germaine Greer, Christos Tsiolkas
Samira Ahmed presents a special edition discussing Australian culture.
Martin Creed, Feminism in Theatre, Pete Seeger
Matthew Sweet discusses the work of artist Martin Creed and debates feminism in theatre.