Free Thinking Episodes Episode guide
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Trapeze acts and circus celebrities
Shahidha Bari hears about aerialists Lillian Leitzel and Pablo Fanque.
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Language, the Victorians, and Us
From Lancashire dialect protest poetry to Hardy's Dorset vowels. John Gallagher hosts.
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Star Trek
Matthew Sweet with George Takei, Naomi Alderman, Una McCormack and Jos茅-Antonio Orosco.
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How do we look at art?
Turner Prize shortlist, the vogue for surround-sound projections, and shows about sight.
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Soil, Chickens and City Farms
Ahead of world soil day, Anne McElvoy looks at changes to both rural and urban farming.
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Morgan 鈥� A Suitable Case for Treatment
Stephen Frears, Matthew Reisz, Lucy Bolton and Matthew Sweet look at this 1966 film.
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Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real.
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St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
Rana Mitter discusses three major philosophers of religion and self-development
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George Bernard Shaw
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950).
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Experimentation in the arts
Shahidha Bari talks to the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for creative daring.
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Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022
New research on Benjamin Franklin in Cumbria, the Kenwood, lightbulbs and ganzflicker.
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Plastic and Clay
Lisa Mullen and guests compare the extraordinary uses of two contrasting materials.
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The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
Video game designers, a former soldier, and curator of War Games at IWM join Anne McElvoy.
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John Knox
A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.
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Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena, joins Anne McElvoy.
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Alexander the Great
Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander.
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Ghostwatch
An examination of the reality鈥揾orror/pseudo-documentary TV broadcast from 1992.
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Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk joins academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria.
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Dead languages
John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of ancient Pompeii
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Oliver Postgate
Matthew Sweet with Daniel Postgate, Sandra Kerr, Neil Brand and Samira Ahmed.
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Going Underground
Shahidha Bari and guests explore life and leisure underground.
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British Academy Book Prize 2022
Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
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Romanticism revisited
Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bront毛 under the spotlight as new films and exhibitions open.
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The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022
Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.
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Miles Davis and On The Corner
Matthew Sweet and guests explore Davis's genre-stretching album, released on 11 Oct 1972.
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How We Read
Matthew Sweet explores our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text.
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Female power and influence past and present
Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro.
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My Neighbour Totoro
Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.
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John Cowper Powys
John Gray, Margaret Drabble, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring discuss Powys's writing.
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Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.
