The Essay Episodes Available now
Professor Kofi Agawu—Is Music a Civilising Force?
3/5 Professor Kofi Agawu examines the civilising force of music from an African perspective.
Professor Alice Roberts—Is Music a Civilising Force?
2/5 Anatomist and osteoarchaeologist Alice Roberts looks at music's humananising force.
Sir Roger Scruton—Is Music a Civilising Force?
1/5 Sir Roger Scruton explores the civilising force of music.
What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?—The Free Thinking Essay
10/10 Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, on AI and Douglas Adams.
Kids With Guns—The Free Thinking Essay
9/10 Emma Butcher looks at the view of war in the childhood writings of the Bronte family.
Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present—The Free Thinking Essay
8/10 Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and now.
When Shakespeare Travelled with Me—New Generation Thinkers at 10
5/5 New Generation Thinker Islam Issa looks at Shakespeare in 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.
A War of Words—The Free Thinking Essay
6/10 Christopher Bannister on the way a fashion show in Buenos Aires helped win World War II.
Doing Nothing—The Free Thinking Essay
5/10 Alistair Fraser on teenagers, gangs and filling time.
Educating Ida—The Free Thinking Essay
4/10 Eleanor Lybeck on the women campaigners satirised in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.
