1054 Episodes

  1. New Thinking: Girls

    Published: 3/2/2021
  2. Saint John Henry Newman

    Published: 3/1/2021
  3. Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4

    Published: 2/25/2021
  4. Humans, Animals, Ecologies

    Published: 2/24/2021
  5. Saint John Henry Newman

    Published: 2/23/2021
  6. Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien & Violette Leduc

    Published: 2/19/2021
  7. Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history

    Published: 2/17/2021
  8. Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies

    Published: 2/16/2021
  9. Coins, the magic money tree and a cashless world

    Published: 2/12/2021
  10. Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)

    Published: 2/10/2021
  11. New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums

    Published: 2/9/2021
  12. Class and social mobility

    Published: 2/4/2021
  13. Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman

    Published: 2/3/2021
  14. New Thinking: Eco-Criticism

    Published: 2/2/2021
  15. What Makes a Good Lecture?

    Published: 1/30/2021
  16. Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France

    Published: 1/27/2021
  17. Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan

    Published: 1/26/2021
  18. John Rawls's A Theory of Justice

    Published: 1/21/2021
  19. James Baldwin and race in USA

    Published: 1/20/2021
  20. Harlots & 18th Century Working Women

    Published: 1/19/2021

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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.