BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Higher Education for women and working class students

Anne McElvoy hosts a conversation about higher education and the history of its expansion

Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes.

Marion Turner talks to Shahidha Bari about different versions of Chaucer's heroine

John Gallagher is joined by Gwenno, who writes and sings in Cornish, and others.

The enslaved African American woman, Phillis Wheatley who became a celebrated poet.

Matthew Sweet looks at the writer of a dystopian psychodrama, Ice, who died in 1968.

Matthew Sweet reads Ice and other works of this experimental writer who died in 1968

Christienna Fryar explores the life and writing of the enslaved American poet (1753-1784).

Claire Harman, Kirsty Gunn, Laurence Scott and Shahidha Bari discuss short story writing

Rana Mitter and guests discuss the pan-Africanist poet and anti-colonial leader.