BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Ghosts of Caribbean history

New writing by Colin Grant and Kevin Jared Hosein; art by Michael Elliott and Mary Evans.

Knossos, birthplace of myths and tragedies, is explored by Rana Mitter and Natalie Haynes.

Matthew Sweet and guests explore the work of Burkinabé film-maker Idrissa Ouédraogo.

The people's history of banners, a dress diary, Sheffield sculptures and a new musical.

Romeo and Juliet reworked, Proust and Rita Mae Brown's coming-of-age tale Rubyfruit Jungle

From Aesop and the bible to the film EO which looks at a donkey born in a Polish circus.

From Kurosawa and Shostakovich to Zinnie Harris. New takes on the Scottish play.

Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet (1917-2000).

Russell T Davies and Paula Milne on the power of soap operas.

The resonances of C17 history now, discussed by Jonathan Healey, Anna Keay, Clare Jackson.