Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
Laurence Scott and Will Self talk about redundant features in design.
Authority in the Era of Populism
Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts, Rupert Reid and Anne McElvoy.
Jack the Ripper and women as victims
Hallie Rubenhold, Emma Jenkins, Dr Kate Lister and Ruth Ware join Matthew Sweet.
Images of Japan
Fumio Obata and Jocelyne Allen discuss graphic art and manga.
The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature
Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.
Patti LuPone
The musicals star on politics, performing, #Me Too and her Italian American roots.
Love
The science and art of love. Andrew McMillan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Elanor Dymott, Laura Mucha
Africa, Babel, China
Histories of West Africa, 20th-century China, and the art of translation.
Spike Lee
The film-maker talks black power, blackface and Academy Awards with Matthew Sweet.
Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds.
Quassim Cassam and Simon Beard with Matthew, plus RW Fassbinder's 1970s TV sci-fi series.
