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.
Why do Hannah Arendt's ideas continue to fire the imaginations of artists and thinkers?
Susan Neiman, Ursula Owen and Christopher Hampton join Anne McElvoy.
Carrie Reichardt, Peter Bazalgette, Zahed Tajeddin and Rebecca Newell with Anne McElvoy.
Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city still cast such a long shadow?
Rana Mitter talks to historians of China Jung Chang and Julia Lovell, and Cindy Yu.
Rana Mitter marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation and talks to author Anne Michaels
Sarah Churchwell, Kathryn Napier Gray and Lauren Working with Eleanor Barraclough.
From building shelters to the language we use to discuss displacement we hear new research
From a gratitude train to the sinister broadcasts to US soldiers. Matthew Sweet presents.
Maaza Mengiste, Christina Lamb, Julie Wheelwright & Shawn Sobers join Eleanor Barraclough.
Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell and Tom Smith
Ex-marine and journalist Elliot Ackerman on al-Qaeda and the Iraq War.
Anne McElvoy watches George Clooney in Catch-22 on TV and looks at recycling fashion.
Peter Hitchens; Rev Lucy Winkett; Neil Bartlett: Prof Steve Brown @ Imperial War Museum.
Marie Darrieussecq, Andrew Hussey, Tibor Fischer & Damian Catani on CĂ©line's masterpiece.
Gillian Clarke, Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet.
William Boyd, Margaret Drabble and Matthew Sweet discuss Musil's The Man Without Qualities
Philip Dodd discusses war and modern memory.
Iain Sinclair, Emma Jenkins, Paul Hills and Iain Bell discuss the writing of David Jones.
Peter Mackay explores how WWI soldiers in kilted regiments discussed their allegiances.
Nadine Muller on the hidden history of widows in Britain from the 19th century to today.
Matthew Sweet discusses WWI, empire and adventure in John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps.
Rana Mitter discusses the roles of Turkey, India, China and Japan in World War I.
From Paul Nash paintings to commemorative planting: Samira Ahmed on woods in war and peace
