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Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

Web guru Tim O'Reilly; the magical worlds of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman, Tove Jansson

• 44 mins

Free Thinking: Young Marx, Yanis Varoufakis and Ruth Lea and Tara Bergin

Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman

• 44 mins

Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner

Director Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore & Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art. History of British nature writing.

Anne McElvoy on art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light filled room...

• 43 mins

Benjamin Britten and Radio

David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with an audience at Aldeburgh.

• 44 mins

The pros and cons of Swearing.

Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore

• 45 mins

Free Thinking: Soviet Histories: Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Svetlana Alexeivich on Soviet oral history as literature and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.

• 44 mins

Landmark – Man with a Movie Camera

Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov

• 46 mins

Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik talk to Anne McElvoy.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking: Poetry and Protest Newcastle

Poetry and protest -Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar and Major Jackson at Newcastle University.

• 44 mins

Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Head of News James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.

• 44 mins

Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.

Matthew Sweet in Canterbury and Portsmouth uncovering stories of the lost and the found.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking – Being Human: Lost and Found in the Archives

New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott report on the Being Human Festival

• 44 mins

Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith share visions of the future with Rana Mitter. Plus Kevin Rudd.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking – Religious Belief

Philip Dodd looks at 2000 years of Arab Christians and the modern rise of Pentecostalism.

• 43 mins

Free Thinking – David Willetts plus does scandal drive social change?

The Rt Hon Lord David Willetts talks to Philip Dodd about universities in the UK

• 44 mins

Gentrification

Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. + artist Lucinda Rogers

• 43 mins

Ken Burns – Flash photography - Joy

The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale & Kate Flint.

• 44 mins

Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment

Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.

• 44 mins

The Joy of Bad Films

Weathermen member Jonathan Lerner on underground protest & The Disaster Artist reviewed.

• 43 mins

Many faces of Eve?

Catherine Fletcher with Stephen Greenblatt, Islam Issa, Jennifer Evans and Sara Read.

• 44 mins

Landmark - This Sporting Life

Philip Dodd and his guests on David Storey's 1960 novel set in the world of rugby league

• 43 mins

Should We Keep Pets?

John Bradshaw, Jessica Pierce, Philip Howell and Laura Purcell with Anne McElvoy.

• 43 mins

A Literary Salon.

Malika Booker, Neil Brand, Katherine Cooper and Jake Arnott join Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Rethinking Tradition

Roger Scruton, Kevin Davey, Kirsty Gunn & Haroon Mirza on tradition & experiment

• 44 mins

The Invention of the Circus Ring

Matthew Sweet looks at the career of impresario Philip Astley and 250 years of circus

• 44 mins

Diving Deep

Diving as metaphor, occupation and study from Tudor times to the present

• 44 mins

Landmark: The Odyssey

Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd

• 44 mins

The In Between

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough considers airport lounges railway stations and liminal spaces

• 44 mins

Counterculture and Protest

Matthew Sweet with Paul Hartnoll, Tony White, Tessa DeCarlo & Paul Cronin on uprisings.

• 44 mins