1054 Episodes

  1. Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine

    Published: 4/5/2024
  2. Unravelling plainness

    Published: 3/29/2024
  3. Pranks

    Published: 3/29/2024
  4. What does feminist art mean?

    Published: 3/28/2024
  5. New Thinking: Light and Darkness

    Published: 3/28/2024
  6. Approaches to death

    Published: 3/27/2024
  7. New Thinking: East West artistic connections

    Published: 3/27/2024
  8. Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners

    Published: 3/27/2024
  9. Writing Place

    Published: 3/27/2024
  10. Arteries of tomorrow

    Published: 3/26/2024
  11. New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment

    Published: 3/22/2024
  12. The Legacy of the Laundries

    Published: 3/22/2024
  13. Gas, oil and the Essex blues

    Published: 3/22/2024
  14. Weird Viking Bodies

    Published: 3/21/2024
  15. From algorithms to oceans

    Published: 3/21/2024
  16. Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft

    Published: 3/20/2024
  17. Scottish Kingship

    Published: 3/20/2024
  18. Free speech, censorship and modern China

    Published: 3/19/2024
  19. Call Me Mother

    Published: 3/18/2024
  20. Edward Bond

    Published: 3/15/2024

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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.