Arts & Ideas
BBC Radio 4
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Arts & Ideas podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The descent of man
Charles Darwin
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Gulliver's travels
Jonathan Swift
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Ulysses
James Joyce
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Keeping an Eye Open, Essays on Art
Essays on Art
Julian Barnes
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Story of a Heart
Rachel Clarke
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Cracking India
Bapsi Sidhwa
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Feminomics
Corinne Low
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The dispossessed
Laura Longmore
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hotel Dulac
Anita Brookner
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Great Apes
Will Self
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
THE RABBIT HUTCH
Tess Gunty
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Times Witness
Rosemary Hill
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Iceberg
Marion Coutts
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Things We Do and Why We Do Them
Prof Constantine Sandis
