1054 Episodes

  1. The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea

    Published: 4/11/2019
  2. The Unsaid

    Published: 4/11/2019
  3. Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?

    Published: 4/10/2019
  4. The Way We Used To Feel

    Published: 4/10/2019
  5. Who Wrote Animal Farm?

    Published: 4/9/2019
  6. How They Manipulate Our Emotions

    Published: 4/9/2019
  7. Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival

    Published: 4/9/2019
  8. The Emotion of Now

    Published: 4/8/2019
  9. Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century

    Published: 4/8/2019
  10. Healthy Eating Edwardian Style

    Published: 4/5/2019
  11. 'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get?

    Published: 4/5/2019
  12. Shopping Around the Baby Market

    Published: 4/4/2019
  13. Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go

    Published: 4/3/2019
  14. Being Diplomatic

    Published: 4/3/2019
  15. The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama

    Published: 4/2/2019
  16. Anxiety and the Teenage Brain

    Published: 4/2/2019
  17. A city is not a park but should it be?

    Published: 4/2/2019
  18. Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson

    Published: 4/1/2019
  19. Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture

    Published: 4/1/2019
  20. Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?

    Published: 3/27/2019

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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.