Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Leadership
From Tudor courts to plantations to the Arab Spring: a Bristol Festival of Ideas debate.
Conformity and Rebellion
Activist Obi Egbuna, Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, Japanese child star Misora Hibari
Bedrooms
From the most private space to office: Matthew Sweet, Tiffany Watt Smith and Fern Riddell.
Democracy, Hong Kong and USA
Democracy and dissent in Hong Kong and the USA. Are confrontational politics here to stay?
Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo
How do you teach writing? Helen Mort and Blake Morrison compare notes.
About Face
What would you change about your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
New research on Herman Moll's maps, looted Mexican coins and Alan Bates's early career.
The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?
What we cherish and what we give away
What objects do we value most and what do we give away to charity shops?
Billy Wilder
Matthew Sweet, novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot.
