Free Thinking looks at war through power, peace negotiations, trees, spying, poetry and memory. Margaret MacMillan, Jonathan Powell, Naoko Shimazu, Kamila Shamsie, William Boyd, Elleke Boehmer.
As an Imperial War Museum show opens, Anne McElvoy and guests discuss art and the Troubles
As the IWM unveils its new art galleries, Anne McElvoy & guests discuss photographing war
How does Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler in 1938 affect politics in 2022?
Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy
Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests.
Matthew Sweet looks at the experiences of Portuguese Jewish and Roma communities.
Shobana Jeyasingh, Cat Jarman and Janina Ramirez share new research with Shahidha Bari.
Chris Harding reads from Yu Miri's new novel, The End of August.
Katja Hoyer on East Germany, behind the Berlin Wall and the Cold War caricature.
Anne McElvoy talks to Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid & hears about new historical research.
The resonances of C17 history now, discussed by Jonathan Healey, Anna Keay, Clare Jackson.
Video game designers, a former soldier, and curator of War Games at IWM join Anne McElvoy.
Linda Grant and Boris Dralyuk discuss the writer Isaac Babel with Matthew Sweet.
How do we define a war? Anne McElvoy and guests look at how language changes attitudes.
What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?
Historians Margaret McMillan and Rob Johnson. Novelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Mia Couto
Rana Mitter talks to Professor Mary Beard, artist Ali Cherri and looks at Hogarth's art.
An architect who lived in Homs during the war, a translator of Adonis and a media analyst.
Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner talk to Matthew Sweet about languages, codes and secrecy.
Anne McElvoy and guests on attitudes to the politician, his rhetoric and foreign policies.
From a secret Iraqi cell to new revelations of Cold War exploits. Rana Mitter hosts.
Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar and Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.
Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter.
Rana Mitter talks to documentary makers, a novelist and historian about breaking silences.
