From the Spains to Latinx, including Iain Sinclair's Peruvian Journey

Rana Mitter talks to Jason Webster, Ed Morales, Iain Sinclair and Iwona Blazwick.

• 44 mins

Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day

Who holds the power? US activist and author Rebecca Solnit talks to Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art

Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Michael Govan talks art with Philip Dodd.

• 44 mins

Modern Dutch Writing

Laurence Scott looks at the way Dutch writers are addressing history and contemporary life

• 44 mins

East Meets West

Historian Tom Holland, critic Fatima Bhutto, Ziauddin Sardar, and artist Inci Eviner.

• 44 mins

2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts

Anne McElvoy talks prehistory with archaeologist Mike Pitts and artist Renee So.

• 44 mins

The Woolly episode.

From Sean the Sheep & Damien Hirst to clothiers & a knitted bikini. Shahida Bari presents.

• 44 mins

Dictators

Matthew Sweet and guests on Chaplin's 1941 film, The Great Dictator, and rising populism.

• 44 mins

The 2019 Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate

Museum directors from Asia and France join Anne McElvoy and an audience at RIBA.

• 44 mins

What to Believe

Rana Mitter and guests look at the history of atheism and morality.

• 44 mins

Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby

Matthew Sweet is joined by Rachel Reeves MP, Jane Thomas and Katie Cooper in Hull.

• 44 mins

Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell

Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.

• 44 mins

Cars, Parking and Motorways.

A discussion reflecting on automobiles, AI and the 60th anniversary of the M1 motorway.

• 44 mins

Halloween. Ghost Stories

Haunting stories with Kirsty Logan, Jeremy Dyson and host Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

Quatermass

Matthew Sweet celebrates the classic TV sci-fi series with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat.

• 44 mins

The changing image of masculinity

Writers Ben Lerner, JJ Bola and Derek Owusu on images of masculinity in fiction and life.

• 44 mins

The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate

Carrie Reichardt, Peter Bazalgette, Zahed Tajeddin and Rebecca Newell with Anne McElvoy.

• 44 mins

Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture

Le Gateau Chocolat, Lucy McCormick and Gaylene Gould with Matthew Sweet at the Barbican.

• 44 mins

Why We Need New News: Being Human Festival Research

Shahidha Bari looks at news past and present from hangings to updating TV news bulletins.

• 44 mins

Being Human: Love Stories

New research taking love stories out of the vaults and into the gay bar.

• 44 mins

Are the arts saving Margate?

Philip Dodd finds out about the Turner Contemporary’s impact. Plus writer Maggie Gee.

• 44 mins

George Eliot's Mill on the Floss

Rebecca Mead, Fiona Shaw, Philip Davis, Dafydd Daniel & Peggy Reynolds with Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

The legacy of the Trojan War

Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city still cast such a long shadow?

• 44 mins

Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?

Rana Mitter talks to historians of China Jung Chang and Julia Lovell, and Cindy Yu.

• 44 mins

The Future of Universities

Larry Summers and Josie Frasser on the impact of technology and globalisation.

• 44 mins

Resting and Rushing

Claudia Hammond has solutions for our frazzled times and Matthew Smith looks at ritalin.

• 44 mins

When TV & the information superhighway were new

Matthew Sweet and guests reflect on the experimental art of Nam June Paik and John Giorno

• 44 mins

Feasting, fasting, hospitality and food security

From plenty to food banks - writer Priya Basil, curator Victoria Avery and Maia Elliot

• 44 mins

The shadow of empire and colonialism

Historian William Dalrymple, Wasafiri editor Susheila Nasta and novelist Romesh Gunesekera

• 44 mins

Pan-Africanism

Shahidha Bari discusses pan-Africanism in plays, films, literature and politics.

• 44 mins