Free Thinking Festival 2017Episodes Available now

Taking the Long View with the Animal Kingdom

16/16Tim Birkhead and Phyllis Lee on long-lived animal species and their survival strategies.

15/16Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health.

14/16Carlos Frenk, Eugenia Cheng, Jim Al-Khalili and Louisa Preston debate time and space.

13/16Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris explore time and place in modern Britain.

12/16Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist meditation teacher, on calm in a fast-paced 21st-century world.

11/16The 2017 New Generation Thinkers make their first public appearance together.

10/16Tony Sewell and Mike Grenier discuss the challenges of education in the 21st century.

9/16Edwina Currie, Miranda Sawyer and Lola Okolosie explore the different times of our lives.

8/16Matthew Sweet introduces a discussion exploring the history of the workplace.

7/16Bettany Hughes, Richard J Evans and John Hall join Philip Dodd and an audience at Sage.