ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido

Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.

• 44 mins

Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.

Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.

• 43 mins

Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress

Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.

• 43 mins

Free Thinking: The importance of networks; the art of dance.

Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking - Alan Hollinghurst

The former Booker Prize winner talks to Anne McElvoy and a Proms Extra audience.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking - Blade Runner. Ghost Stories

Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 & visits haunted places in Portsmouth

• 41 mins

Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty

Novelists Salman Rushdie and Lionel Shriver plus Marcus Chown and Rachel Hewitt.

• 44 mins

Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley

Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness

• 43 mins

Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.

• 44 mins

The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

Dr Foster writer Mike Bartlett on his new play Albion plus the rise of small nations.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking: Landmark: Marnie

Matthew Sweet with an exploration of memory and Winston Graham's novel/Hitchcock's film

• 44 mins

Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

Web guru Tim O'Reilly; the magical worlds of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman, Tove Jansson

• 44 mins

Free Thinking: Young Marx, Yanis Varoufakis and Ruth Lea and Tara Bergin

Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman

• 44 mins

Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner

Director Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore & Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art. History of British nature writing.

Anne McElvoy on art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light filled room...

• 43 mins

Benjamin Britten and Radio

David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with an audience at Aldeburgh.

• 44 mins

The pros and cons of Swearing.

Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore

• 45 mins

Free Thinking: Soviet Histories: Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Svetlana Alexeivich on Soviet oral history as literature and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.

• 44 mins

Landmark – Man with a Movie Camera

Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov

• 46 mins

Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik talk to Anne McElvoy.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking: Poetry and Protest Newcastle

Poetry and protest -Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar and Major Jackson at Newcastle University.

• 44 mins

Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Head of News James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.

• 44 mins

Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.

Matthew Sweet in Canterbury and Portsmouth uncovering stories of the lost and the found.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking – Being Human: Lost and Found in the Archives

New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott report on the Being Human Festival

• 44 mins

Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith share visions of the future with Rana Mitter. Plus Kevin Rudd.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking – Religious Belief

Philip Dodd looks at 2000 years of Arab Christians and the modern rise of Pentecostalism.

• 43 mins

Free Thinking – David Willetts plus does scandal drive social change?

The Rt Hon Lord David Willetts talks to Philip Dodd about universities in the UK

• 44 mins

Gentrification

Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. + artist Lucinda Rogers

• 43 mins

Ken Burns – Flash photography - Joy

The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale & Kate Flint.

• 44 mins

Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment

Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.

• 44 mins