This week, Suzi Feay sizes up the public intellectuals, deadbeat aristocrats, hedonistic oligarchs and hardened street soldiers of Andrew O'Hagan's panoramic new novel; and Michael Caines on the prolific and endlessly imaginative world of Ray Bradbury.

'Caledonian Road', by Andrew O'Hagan

'Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury', edited by Jonathan R. Eller

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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In the first episode of our new series about the history of freedom, David and Lea discuss what the idea means to them and why it matters so much. What did freedom mean to Lea growing up in communist Albania? Is it possible to know true freedom without also having experienced oppression? And how is being free different from being lucky?

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Coming up next on the History of Freedom: The Ancients – Socrates, Seneca & Jesus.

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