Arts & Ideas
A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Fridays
1054 Episodes
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Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture
Published: 2/5/2020 -
Mocking power past and present.
Published: 2/5/2020 -
New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution
Published: 1/31/2020 -
Fungi: An Alien Encounter
Published: 1/30/2020 -
How we see pregnancy past and present
Published: 1/30/2020 -
Remembering Auschwitz
Published: 1/28/2020 -
What is good listening?
Published: 1/24/2020 -
Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse
Published: 1/22/2020 -
Goddesses of academia
Published: 1/21/2020 -
New Thinking: About Face
Published: 1/17/2020 -
Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
Published: 1/16/2020 -
Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"
Published: 1/16/2020 -
Simplify your life
Published: 1/15/2020 -
Philosophy and Film
Published: 1/10/2020 -
Could there be a private language?
Published: 1/9/2020 -
Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?
Published: 1/9/2020 -
The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile
Published: 12/19/2019 -
The culture wars and politics now.
Published: 12/18/2019 -
Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World
Published: 12/18/2019 -
New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories
Published: 12/13/2019
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.