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Free Thinking

Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Heer Ranjha, Sappho

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Presented by Catherine Fletcher. With a discussion about the Punjabi Romeo and Juliet held at the 2017 Bradford Literary Festival and Jonathan Dollimore talking about his memoir. Show more

Free Thinking

Hay 2017: Women's Voices in the Classical World

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Colm Toibin, Bettany Hughes and Paul Cartledge join New Generation Thinker Catherine Fletcher for a discussion recorded at 2017's Hay Festival. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Colm Toibin
Interviewed Guest:
Bettany Hughes
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Cartledge
Producer:
Zahid Warley

Free Thinking

Landmark: The Prince

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Authors Sarah Dunant and Erica Benner, MP Gisela Stuart and historian Catherine Fletcher join Philip Dodd to explore the continuing relevance of Machiavelli's The Prince. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Dunant
Interviewed Guest:
Erica Benner
Interviewed Guest:
Gisela Stuart
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Fletcher
Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Producer:
Robyn Read

In Our Time

The Medici

Duration: 42 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, who dominated Florence's political and cultural life during the Renaissance. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Evelyn Welch
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Black
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Fletcher

Free Thinking

Botticelli Reimagined, A New Biography of Hitler

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

As a best-selling German biography of Hitler is published in English, Anne McElvoy explores the way German historians view Hitler now. Plus Botticelli Reimagined at the V&A. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Volker Ullrich
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Evans
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Fletcher
Producer:
Luke Mulhall

Start the Week

Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Cultural discussion programme. Anne McElvoy discusses race and bias with poets Claudia Rankine and Amir Darwish, philosopher Jules Holroyd and historian Catherine Fletcher. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Claudia Rankine
Interviewed Guest:
Amir Darwish
Interviewed Guest:
Jules Holroyd
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Fletcher
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Free Thinking

Artes Mundi Prize, Harriet Walter, Amitav Ghosh, Edmund Richardson

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

With Catherine Fletcher and Owen Sheers on the Artes Mundi visual arts show, actress Harriet Walter on playing male theatrical roles and Amitav Ghosh on climate change in fiction. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Harriet Walter
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Fletcher
Interviewed Guest:
Owen Sheers
Interviewed Guest:
Amitav Ghosh

Free Thinking

The body, past and present

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Beauty from the Renaissance to the present. Painter Charlotte Joffe, philosopher Heather Widdows, and writer and historian Catherine Fletcher talk to Anne McElvoy. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Chantal Joffe
Interviewed Guest:
Heather Widdows
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Fletcher
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Goldsmith
Producer:
Zahid Warley