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

Does My Pet Love Me?

A Free Thinking Festival discussion with Nicky Clayton, Erica Fudge and Kim Bard.

• 44 mins

20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World

Aatish Taseer, Veronica Strang and Thomas Dixon at the Free Thinking Festival.

• 44 mins

Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers

From techno music in Berlin to the Glasgow ‘rag trade’, and divisive dams to fake news.

• 44 mins

Landmark: Audre Lorde

Jackie Kay and Selina Thompson on the influential US writer and civil rights activist.

• 44 mins

The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion.

Alan Johnson, Pascale Petit, Hisham Matar and Peter Pomerantsev join Eleanor Barraclough.

• 44 mins

Learning about love from Kierkegaard and Socrates, The Wellcome Book Prize

A philosopher of love and a philosopher in love.

• 44 mins

Born in 1819: Whitman, Melville and Ward Howe

Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.

• 44 mins

Chaucer, Bernardine Evaristo

Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer and talks to novelist Bernardine Evaristo.

• 44 mins

Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic and the Mind.

Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns with Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias

• 44 mins

Rivers and geopolitics

Global Dams, ancient Rome and the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity.

• 44 mins

Rivers, poetry and ecology

An anthropologist, a poet, an archaeologist and an angler reflect on the culture of rivers

• 44 mins

Sebald, Anti-semitism, Carolyn Forche

The walking and photographs of WG Sebald and an exhibition of money and Jewish history.

• 44 mins

Censorship and sex

Naomi Wolf discusses the criminalisation of love with presenter Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy

Authors Nicola Upson and Joanne Ramos, and researchers Gulzaar Barn and Ella Parry-Davies.

• 44 mins

2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion

Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy.

• 44 mins

Homi K Bhabha: On Memory and Migration

Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.

• 44 mins