Free Thinking Episodes Available now
The Writing of Aimé Césaire
From négritude and his Discourse on Colonialism to his long inventive and punning poetry.
2020 Polari Prize winners
Shahidha Bari looks at some of the best recent LGBTQ+ writing and photography.
Seances and Science
A Croydon poltergeist and artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale and Simon Grant.
Derrida and post truth
Matthew Sweet asks biographer Peter Salmon about Derrida's influence today
Daljit Nagra & Val McDermid; Reynard the Fox
A poet and a crime writer compare notes; plus, lessons for now from a medieval foxy fable
New Thinking about Museums
VR Vikings, military museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections.
The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate Museums in the 21st Century
Gallery directors from Russia, USA and Singapore compare notes, hosted by Anne McElvoy.
African Europeans, Fidel Castro and African leaders, WEB Du Bois
Professors Olivette Otele and Simon Hall on understanding connections in black history
Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes.
Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Links between biography and poetry. Telling modern Ugandan stories. With Shahidha Bari.
