1054 Episodes

  1. Insiders & Outsiders

    Published: 10/18/2024
  2. Childhood and innocence

    Published: 10/11/2024
  3. Reading & Empathy

    Published: 10/4/2024
  4. The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute

    Published: 9/27/2024
  5. Crisis & Decision

    Published: 9/20/2024
  6. Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

    Published: 9/13/2024
  7. Escapism

    Published: 6/28/2024
  8. The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy

    Published: 6/21/2024
  9. History - the long and short of it

    Published: 6/14/2024
  10. Generations - D-Day - Global Instability

    Published: 6/7/2024
  11. The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies

    Published: 5/31/2024
  12. Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?

    Published: 5/25/2024
  13. Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.

    Published: 5/21/2024
  14. New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers

    Published: 5/16/2024
  15. Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest

    Published: 5/10/2024
  16. Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife

    Published: 5/4/2024
  17. Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal

    Published: 4/26/2024
  18. New Thinking: Exploring the local

    Published: 4/26/2024
  19. Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey

    Published: 4/19/2024
  20. Change, scrabble and cultural christianity

    Published: 4/12/2024

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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.