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.
Images of Persia
44 mins; March 12, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
45 mins; March 07, 2024
Muses and women's creativity
45 mins; March 06, 2024
Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress
45 mins; March 05, 2024
The Dutch Connection
45 mins; February 29, 2024
Hitchhiking
45 mins; February 28, 2024
New Thinking: Stitching Stories
43 mins; February 27, 2024
Can - Future Days
44 mins; February 22, 2024
Myths, ships and history
44 mins; February 20, 2024
The Condom and V.D.
45 mins; February 15, 2024
Chocolate
45 mins; February 14, 2024
Chocolate
45 mins; February 09, 2024
The Greenwich Outrage
45 mins; February 09, 2024
Picnics
45 mins; February 07, 2024
Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
44 mins; February 05, 2024
On The Silver Globe
45 mins; February 02, 2024
East West religious connections
45 mins; January 31, 2024
Secrets, Lies & Irish History
45 mins; January 30, 2024
Holocaust history
45 mins; January 26, 2024
The Kyoto School
45 mins; January 24, 2024
Heidegger & Antisemitism
48 mins; January 23, 2024
What is normal?
45 mins; January 19, 2024
Shakespeare's Women
45 mins; January 17, 2024
Dust, dirt and domesticity
44 mins; January 16, 2024
Octavia Butler's Kindred
43 mins; January 11, 2024
Essay writing
45 mins; January 10, 2024
Travel, pleasure and peril
45 mins; January 03, 2024
Dickens, Disney and copyright
44 mins; December 21, 2023
New Thinking: Carols and Convents
27 mins; December 20, 2023
Greek myth, goddesses and art
44 mins; December 20, 2023
Prize Winners 2023
44 mins; December 19, 2023
Harry Belafonte
45 mins; December 15, 2023
Margaret Cavendish
44 mins; December 13, 2023
Narnia and CS Lewis
54 mins; December 06, 2023
Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter
44 mins; December 05, 2023
New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre
39 mins; December 01, 2023
Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
45 mins; December 01, 2023
Libraries
44 mins; November 29, 2023
Lorca
45 mins; November 28, 2023
AS Byatt and The Children's Book
43 mins; November 24, 2023
Post-War Germany
44 mins; November 22, 2023
Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners
44 mins; November 21, 2023
New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture
40 mins; November 17, 2023
Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
45 mins; November 16, 2023
Women, art and activism
44 mins; November 15, 2023
Shakespeare as inspiration
44 mins; November 08, 2023
New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project
31 mins; November 08, 2023
New Thinking: How and why we talk
44 mins; November 08, 2023
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023
44 mins; November 07, 2023
New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going
37 mins; November 06, 2023
New Thinking: Food
44 mins; November 05, 2023
New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness
31 mins; November 02, 2023
African identity via China and photography
45 mins; November 02, 2023
Robert Aickman
45 mins; November 02, 2023
Eliza Flower and non-conformist thinking
45 mins; October 27, 2023
Sleep
44 mins; October 24, 2023
Sankofa and Afrofuturism
44 mins; October 23, 2023
Valis and Philip K Dick
45 mins; October 20, 2023
Humours and The Body
44 mins; October 18, 2023
Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork
44 mins; October 17, 2023
New Thinking: Work and protest
35 mins; October 13, 2023
Being Blonde
44 mins; October 12, 2023
The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023
44 mins; October 11, 2023
Art, Kew, a symphony and nature
44 mins; October 10, 2023
New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness
29 mins; October 09, 2023
Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life
44 mins; October 05, 2023
Refuge and National Poetry Day
44 mins; October 04, 2023
Slavic culture and myth
44 mins; October 03, 2023
Hobbes and New Leviathans
45 mins; September 28, 2023
Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival
