BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

Rana Mitter hosts a debate at Hay Festival about the rise of the environmental movement.

Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.

Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy.

Authors Nicola Upson and Joanne Ramos, and researchers Gulzaar Barn and Ella Parry-Davies.

Naomi Wolf discusses the criminalisation of love with presenter Matthew Sweet.

The walking and photographs of WG Sebald and an exhibition of money and Jewish history.

An anthropologist, a poet, an archaeologist and an angler reflect on the culture of rivers

Global Dams, ancient Rome and the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity.

Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns with Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias

Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer and talks to novelist Bernardine Evaristo.