BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics

Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena, joins Anne McElvoy.

Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander.

An examination of the reality–horror/pseudo-documentary TV broadcast from 1992.

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk joins academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria.

John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of ancient Pompeii

Matthew Sweet with Daniel Postgate, Sandra Kerr, Neil Brand and Samira Ahmed.

Shahidha Bari and guests explore life and leisure underground.

Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Brontë under the spotlight as new films and exhibitions open.

Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.