Free Thinking explores American culture. Guests include Claudia Rankine, Niall Ferguson, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Bourne鈥�
With a play about Enoch Powell, the US Supreme Court and the visual language of war.
With dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks, plus gun culture and abstract expressionism at the RA.
Matthew Sweet discusses deserts with writers Geoff Dyer and Laurence Scott.
Philip Dodd considers rage in the politics of the US and India.
Matthew Sweet discusses the revival of westerns and considers the 2016 Oscar contenders.
Philip Dodd explores the writing of Lorraine Hansberry and its continuing resonance.
Claudia Rankine gives a lecture exploring language and racism past and present.
Matthew Sweet with The Invention of Nature, The Cabaret of Plants and The Black Panthers.
Salman Rushdie talks to Philip Dodd. Plus historian Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger.
Zoe Wanamaker, David Suchet and Antony Sher talk about interpreting Arthur Miller's work.
Martin Amis, Zachary Leader and Sarah Churchwell discuss Saul Bellow's novel Herzog.
PJ O'Rourke and writers of Freakonomics join Rana Mitter at the 2015 Hay Festival.
Samira Ahmed discusses the poems of Thom Gunn, who died in 2004.
Including Joyce Carol Oates's new novel, the film Selma and the play Jefferson's Garden.
American authors Jonathan Lethem and Gary Shteyngart are in conversation with Samira Ahmed
Director Steve McQueen talks to Matthew Sweet talks about his new film 12 Years a Slave.
