1054 Episodes

  1. Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture

    Published: 2/5/2020
  2. Mocking power past and present.

    Published: 2/5/2020
  3. New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution

    Published: 1/31/2020
  4. Fungi: An Alien Encounter

    Published: 1/30/2020
  5. How we see pregnancy past and present

    Published: 1/30/2020
  6. Remembering Auschwitz

    Published: 1/28/2020
  7. What is good listening?

    Published: 1/24/2020
  8. Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse

    Published: 1/22/2020
  9. Goddesses of academia

    Published: 1/21/2020
  10. New Thinking: About Face

    Published: 1/17/2020
  11. Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future

    Published: 1/16/2020
  12. Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"

    Published: 1/16/2020
  13. Simplify your life

    Published: 1/15/2020
  14. Philosophy and Film

    Published: 1/10/2020
  15. Could there be a private language?

    Published: 1/9/2020
  16. Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?

    Published: 1/9/2020
  17. The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile

    Published: 12/19/2019
  18. The culture wars and politics now.

    Published: 12/18/2019
  19. Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World

    Published: 12/18/2019
  20. New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories

    Published: 12/13/2019

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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.