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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Free Thinking: Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay

Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay

Rana Mitter discusses writing on art from da Vinci and Rembrandt to Louise Bourgeois.

Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt and Catherine Fletcher join Rana Mitter at the Hay Festival to discuss writing about art from da Vinci and Rembrandt to Louise Bourgeois.

How does writing about art help us embrace a new way of seeing the work? Rana Mitter is joined at the Hay Festival by the novelist and art essayist Siri Hustvedt, the writer and broadcaster Simon Schama and, marking the 500th anniversary of the Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci, the Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe Catherine Fletcher. 

Siri Hustvedt’s books include her novels What I Loved, The Summer without Men and The Blazing World and her essays on paintings, Mysteries of the Rectangle and Living, Thinking, Looking. 
Simon Schama is the author of Rembrandt’s Eyes, Landscape and Memory and The Power of Art. 
Catherine Fletcher’s work includes Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII and his Italian Ambassador and The Black Prince of Florence.  She teaches at Swansea University.  

Producer: Fiona McLean


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