Free Thinking Episodes Available now
The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton
Laurence Scott and Alice Kelly re-read Wharton's 'gilded-age' novel The Age of Innocence.
Pan-Africanism
Shahidha Bari discusses pan-Africanism in plays, films, literature and politics.
The shadow of empire and colonialism
Historian William Dalrymple, Wasafiri editor Susheila Nasta and novelist Romesh Gunesekera
Feasting, fasting, hospitality and food security
From plenty to food banks - writer Priya Basil, curator Victoria Avery and Maia Elliot
When TV & the information superhighway were new
Matthew Sweet and guests reflect on the experimental art of Nam June Paik and John Giorno
Resting and Rushing
Claudia Hammond has solutions for our frazzled times and Matthew Smith looks at ritalin.
The Future of Universities
Larry Summers and Josie Frasser on the impact of technology and globalisation.
Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
Rana Mitter talks to historians of China Jung Chang and Julia Lovell, and Cindy Yu.
The legacy of the Trojan War
Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city still cast such a long shadow?
George Eliot's Mill on the Floss
Rebecca Mead, Fiona Shaw, Philip Davis, Dafydd Daniel & Peggy Reynolds with Shahidha Bari.
