BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

David Chalmers and Iain McGilchrist

Two leading thinkers who are investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world.

Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history.

Dame Sheila Hancock, viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer on endings.

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician.

Reimagining the city through Chris Bush's drama trilogy about its oldest scissor factory.

Matthew Sweet discusses environmental thinking and a film about rice made over 18 years.

Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922.

Damon Galgut discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy

Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th-century city streets in our heads the right one?

Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil