BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch

Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.

Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets a YouTube star.

Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.

Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox.

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing.

Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight, with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.

Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.

Anne Applebaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Seymour discuss Marxism now.

Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.