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.
New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS
29 mins; July 04, 2023
New Thinking: Children and health
34 mins; July 03, 2023
New Thinking: health inequalities
29 mins; July 02, 2023
New Thinking: Design and health
32 mins; July 01, 2023
New Thinking: Writing the NHS
37 mins; June 30, 2023
Dystopian thinking
45 mins; June 30, 2023
Julian the Apostate
45 mins; June 28, 2023
Boyhood to manhood
44 mins; June 26, 2023
Gut instinct
45 mins; June 23, 2023
Diva
44 mins; June 21, 2023
The Sorrows of Young Werther
44 mins; June 20, 2023
Life, art and drama in the kitchen
45 mins; June 16, 2023
Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
44 mins; June 15, 2023
Portraits
45 mins; June 14, 2023
Ideas about health
45 mins; June 13, 2023
Adam Smith
45 mins; June 08, 2023
Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
45 mins; June 07, 2023
Michel Piccoli
44 mins; June 06, 2023
Nature Memoirs
44 mins; May 31, 2023
Europe
45 mins; May 31, 2023
The Troubles in Northern Ireland
45 mins; May 26, 2023
Sneezing, smells and noses
45 mins; May 26, 2023
Linda Grant and Jewish history
45 mins; May 25, 2023
Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright
44 mins; May 24, 2023
Essex
45 mins; May 19, 2023
Rocky Horror and camp
45 mins; May 17, 2023
Zimbabwean writing
44 mins; May 16, 2023
Agoraphobia
45 mins; May 12, 2023
Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science
45 mins; May 10, 2023
Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
44 mins; May 08, 2023
Kingship and ceremony
45 mins; May 05, 2023
Sidney Poitier
45 mins; May 04, 2023
Sound, conflict and central heating
45 mins; May 02, 2023
Lady Antonia Fraser
45 mins; April 27, 2023
Queen Charlotte, fashion and music
45 mins; April 25, 2023
New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day
27 mins; April 20, 2023
Hilma af Klint
45 mins; April 20, 2023
Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing
45 mins; April 19, 2023
Galatea and Shakespeare
45 mins; April 18, 2023
Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite
45 mins; April 13, 2023
Land and soil politics
14 mins; April 13, 2023
Ginger Rogers
45 mins; April 12, 2023
Children of the Waters
14 mins; April 11, 2023
Pirates
45 mins; April 11, 2023
Revolutionary free speech
14 mins; April 07, 2023
Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
13 mins; April 06, 2023
Religion and Science
45 mins; April 06, 2023
A family of witches
14 mins; April 05, 2023
New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld
