On this week’s episode, Claire talks to Salman Rushdie about Quichotte, his Booker-nominated novel inspired by Don Quixote. The novel follows ageing salesman Ismail Smile, who adopts the pseudonym Quichotte as he travels across modern America to find a television star he has fallen in love with. It also contains...

Newly discovered ‘Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others’ shows the Enlightenment thinker expressing unexpected social liberalismA “once in a generation” discovery of a centuries-old manuscript by John Locke shows the great English philosopher making his earliest arguments for religious toleration, with the scholar who unearthed it calling the document...