BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Royalty, art and patronage.

Craig Brown, Afua Hirsch, Robert Jobson, Joe Moshenska, AN Wilson, Philip Dodd on royalty

Matthew Sweet looks at the films nominated for the 2018 Academy Awards.

Lucy Porter & Steve Massa on women of the silent era, Vanda Krefft on William Fox's life

Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H. Guston with Matthew Sweet.

Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H.Guston with Matthew Sweet.

Leila Slimani, President Macron's champion of French culture and language, is interviewed.

Leïla Slimani, President Macron's champion of French culture and language, is interviewed

Peter Carey talks to Rana Mitter about race and racing, on the subject of his latest novel

A car race around Australia is fictionalised in Peter Carey's latest novel + Ovid's tales

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