Free thinking explores women's lives and issues.
Lara Feigel, Michèle Roberts and New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza with Shahidha Bari.
Links between biography and poetry. Telling modern Ugandan stories. With Shahidha Bari.
Hallie Rubenhold, Moira Buffini and Laura Lammasniemi discuss the TV series Harlots.
Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich, from Europe to Hollywood.
Fiona Sampson, Peggy Reynolds and Anne McElvoy talk poetry and writing personal stories
New novels from Jenni Fagan and Salena Godden depict Mrs Death and the devil's daughter.
Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.
New research into female slave owners in Britain to women on Caribbean plantations.
Anne Applebaum, and the lives of Ingrid Bergman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
John Gallagher's guests decode changes in Behn's loyalties from her plays and dedications.
Nikita Gill & Francesca Wade on classicist Jane Harrison, goddesses and LSE's Eileen Power
Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn, Xiaolu Guo, Matthew Sweet on Doris Lessing.
The lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Shahidha Bari to discuss how British justice fails women.
Shahidha Bari with news of the Man Booker Prize and a discussion about female philosophers
Jackie Kay and Selina Thompson on the influential US writer and civil rights activist.
Authors Nicola Upson and Joanne Ramos, and researchers Gulzaar Barn and Ella Parry-Davies.
Helen Lewis joins Shahidha Bari to talk feminist pioneers, dating, and power dynamics.
Matthew Sweet talks to two campaigning women: a writer from Turkey and an animal expert.
Matthew Sweet and guests on Iris Murdoch's thought and writing (15 Jul 1919–8 Feb 1999).
Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism.
Maaza Mengiste, Christina Lamb, Julie Wheelwright & Shawn Sobers join Eleanor Barraclough.
Matthew Sweet is joined by Rachel Reeves MP, Jane Thomas and Katie Cooper in Hull.
Who holds the power? US activist and author Rebecca Solnit talks to Shahidha Bari.
The Irish novelist talks to Laurence Scott, plus a discussion of gossip past and present.