1054 Episodes

  1. The Middle Classes

    Published: 3/28/2025
  2. Isolation

    Published: 3/21/2025
  3. Evidence

    Published: 3/14/2025
  4. Uncertainty

    Published: 3/7/2025
  5. A pinch of salt

    Published: 2/28/2025
  6. Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking

    Published: 2/21/2025
  7. All we need is love

    Published: 2/14/2025
  8. Repetition

    Published: 2/7/2025
  9. Decision Making

    Published: 1/31/2025
  10. Diaries

    Published: 1/24/2025
  11. Knowing When To Stop

    Published: 1/10/2025
  12. Beer, Crisps and the British pub

    Published: 12/20/2024
  13. Luck, predictability and superstition

    Published: 12/13/2024
  14. How we think about evil

    Published: 12/6/2024
  15. Gifts and Gratitude

    Published: 11/29/2024
  16. Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump

    Published: 11/22/2024
  17. Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?

    Published: 11/15/2024
  18. Milton and our modern world

    Published: 11/8/2024
  19. Ghosts, death and ecstatic states

    Published: 11/1/2024
  20. Are we all American now?

    Published: 10/25/2024

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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.