Free Thinking Episodes Available now
About Face
What would you change about your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
New research on Herman Moll's maps, looted Mexican coins and Alan Bates's early career.
The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?
What we cherish and what we give away
What objects do we value most and what do we give away to charity shops?
Billy Wilder
Matthew Sweet, novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot.
Depicting Disability
The history of disabled people’s political activism, to portrayals in fiction & at courts.
War in fact and fiction
Historians Margaret McMillan and Rob Johnson. Novelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Mia Couto
Audiences
A director, event programmer and theatre & dance historians on making work without a crowd
Individualism and Community
From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA to carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts
City Life, estate living and lockdown
Matthew Sweet and guests on how Covid has changed our cities.
