Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Speech, Voice, Accents and AI
Sadie Ryan, Lynda Clark and Allison Koenecke talk about their research with Matthew Sweet.
Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith
Horatio Clare talks to Laurence Scott about mania and healing. Plus Stevie Smith.
Girls
Shahidha Bari looks at research into girls in film and fiction to Malawi health projects.
Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4
Shahidha Bari reads a new English translation by Robert Hurley.
Humans, Animals, Ecologies
Matthew Sweet talks to Joanna Bourke and Anna Tsing about the human and the non human.
Saint John Henry Newman
Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel on Newman's thought
Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien and Violette Leduc
Fiona Sampson, Peggy Reynolds and Anne McElvoy talk poetry and writing personal stories
Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history
Having survived a plane crash, the Turkish prime minister 1950-60 died in an execution.
Pakistan Politics, Water Supplies
Samira Shackle, Ejaz Haider and Majed Akhter talk about Karachi, power, crime and energy.
Coins, going cashless and the magic money tree
In February 1971, the UK went decimal. Anne McElvoy and guests look at money old and new.
