Free Thinking Episodes Available now
The Piano and Love
Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.
Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'
Philip Dodd on the intellectual dark web with Bari Weiss, Douglas Murray and Ed Husain.
Mark Lilla, Owen Hatherley, Gulzaar Barn
Why Mark Lilla thinks the American Left needs a rethink and Gulzaar Barn on medical trials
The man who convinced Jimmy Carter to run for president
Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley
Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university.
The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning
Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy.
American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths
Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman, and the careers picked by psychopaths.
Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas
Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.
Tacita Dean, Mountains, John Tyndall
Landscape in motion plus how mountain climbing inspired a physicist and photographers.
The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate
Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy.
