Africa, Babel, China

Histories of West Africa, 20th-century China, and the art of translation.

• 44 mins

Love

The science and art of love. Andrew McMillan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Elanor Dymott, Laura Mucha

• 44 mins

Patti LuPone

The musicals star on politics, performing, #Me Too and her Italian American roots.

• 44 mins

The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature

Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.

• 44 mins

Images of Japan

Fumio Obata and Jocelyne Allen discuss graphic art and manga.

• 44 mins

Jack the Ripper and women as victims

Hallie Rubenhold, Emma Jenkins, Dr Kate Lister and Ruth Ware join Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Authority in the Era of Populism

Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts, Rupert Reid and Anne McElvoy.

• 44 mins

Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft

Laurence Scott and Will Self talk about redundant features in design.

• 44 mins

David Bailey, Don McCullin

Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.

• 44 mins

Women, relationships and the law past and present

Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay.

• 44 mins

Is British Culture Getting Weirder? Free Thinking at the Late Junction Festival

Gazelle Twin, Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner and William Fowler.

• 44 mins

The Council Estate in Culture

With George Shaw, Kader Attia, Dreda Say Mitchell, Katie Beswick and Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Partition, colonial power and the voices of 16th-century women

With Hew Locke, Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra and Anindya Raychaudhuri.

• 44 mins

Jhumpa Lahiri, Valeria Luiselli, George Szirtes

Two writers and a poet in conversation about language, migrants and personhood.

• 44 mins

Empathy

Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey and AK Benjamin discuss empathy with Chris Harding.

• 44 mins

Childhood faces and fears

A history of orphans, fears about brainwashing and portraits on show at Compton Verney.

• 44 mins

Betrayal

Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal.

• 44 mins

Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?

Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

• 44 mins

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings

Thomas Dixon, first director of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.

• 59 mins

Crimes of Passion

David Wilson, Sophie Hannah and Michael Hughes with Matthew Sweet at Sage.

• 44 mins

Anxiety and the Teenage Brain

Stephen Briers, Caroline Dower and Ceyda Uzun join Anne McElvoy at Sage Gateshead.

• 44 mins

Being Diplomatic

Anne McElvoy talks to Gabrielle Rifkind, William J Burns and Gabriel Gatehouse.

• 44 mins

'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get.

Suffragism, black activism & Brexit. Shahidha Bari chairs a Free Thinking Festival debate.

• 44 mins

The Emotions of Now

What's the most pertinent emotion in 2019 UK: Joy, anger, anxiety, schadenfreude or shame?

• 44 mins

How They Manipulate Our Emotions

An adman, VR creator, gamer, psychologist and Shahidha Bari at the Free Thinking Festival.

• 44 mins

The Way We Used To Feel

From Neanderthals via Tudor England to Chartists - four historians on emotion in the past.

• 44 mins

The Unsaid

Sarah Moss, Una, Michael Richardson and Harriet Shawcross at the Free Thinking Festival.

• 44 mins

Should Doctors Cry?

Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age?

• 44 mins

Why We Need Weepies

From Bambi and Titanic to EastEnders - Matthew Sweet asks what makes us cry and why?

• 44 mins

The New Age of Sentimentality

Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Hewitt and Irenosen Okojie at the Free Thinking Festival.

• 44 mins