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
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Story of a Heart
Rachel Clarke
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Things We Do and Why We Do Them
Prof Constantine Sandis
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Against Identity
Alexander Douglas
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Trading Game
A Confession
Gary Stevenson
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
Bobby Seagull
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How to Talk about Love
An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers
Armand D'Angour
Plato
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The road to serfdom
Friedrich Von Hayek
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Boy
Roald Dahl
Quentin Blake
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mary Hamilton's Diary
Mary Hamilton
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Lone Wolf
Terry Thompson
Andy Saunders
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Diaries of Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mutual Aid
Peter Kropotkin
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Crossman's Diaries
Richard Crossman
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Failures in Cultural Participation
David Stevenson
Leila Jancovich
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Control
David Mack
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Grimm's fairy tales
Jacob Grimm
