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: Language, the Victorians and Us
45 mins; December 06, 2022
How do we look at Art?
44 mins; November 30, 2022
Soil, Chickens and City Farms
43 mins; November 29, 2022
Star Trek
44 mins; November 25, 2022
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment
44 mins; November 24, 2022
Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
44 mins; November 23, 2022
New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history
30 mins; November 23, 2022
New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history
30 mins; November 23, 2022
St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
44 mins; November 22, 2022
Going Underground
43 mins; November 22, 2022
Experimental writing
44 mins; November 22, 2022
New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022
41 mins; November 22, 2022
New Thinking: Net Zero Design
28 mins; November 18, 2022
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
44 mins; November 18, 2022
George Bernard Shaw
51 mins; November 16, 2022
Plastic and Clay
44 mins; November 09, 2022
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
44 mins; November 08, 2022
John Knox
44 mins; November 03, 2022
Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
44 mins; November 02, 2022
Alexander the Great
45 mins; November 01, 2022
New Thinking: Beowulf
30 mins; October 28, 2022
Ghostwatch
45 mins; October 27, 2022
Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire
44 mins; October 26, 2022
New Thinking: Dead Languages
44 mins; October 26, 2022
Oliver Postgate
44 mins; October 21, 2022
British Academy Book Prize 2022
45 mins; October 18, 2022
Romanticism Revisited
45 mins; October 13, 2022
The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022
44 mins; October 12, 2022
New Thinking: Accents
45 mins; October 12, 2022
Miles Davis and On The Corner
44 mins; October 11, 2022
How We Read
44 mins; October 07, 2022
Female power and influence past and present
44 mins; October 05, 2022
My Neighbour Totoro
44 mins; October 04, 2022
John Cowper Powys
54 mins; September 29, 2022
Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
44 mins; September 28, 2022
Ibsen
43 mins; September 26, 2022
The Black Country - past and present
44 mins; September 23, 2022
The Black Country - past and present
44 mins; September 22, 2022
The Normans
44 mins; September 21, 2022
Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
44 mins; September 20, 2022
Immortality
44 mins; September 16, 2022
The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries
45 mins; September 14, 2022
New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?
45 mins; September 13, 2022
1922: The Hollywood Bowl
20 mins; September 06, 2022
1922: The Lincoln Memorial
17 mins; September 02, 2022
Prison Break
14 mins; August 26, 2022
Egyptian Satire
12 mins; August 25, 2022
Pogroms and Prejudice
14 mins; August 24, 2022
Facing Facts
12 mins; August 23, 2022
Dam Fever and the Diaspora
14 mins; August 22, 2022
1922: Allotments
14 mins; August 18, 2022
1922: Nanook of the North
14 mins; August 17, 2022
1922: Leisure and the body
14 mins; August 17, 2022
1922: Food
14 mins; August 16, 2022
Not Quite Jean Muir
14 mins; August 12, 2022
Tudor Virtual Reality
13 mins; August 11, 2022
Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care
13 mins; August 10, 2022
Digging Deep
14 mins; August 09, 2022
Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
14 mins; August 09, 2022
Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
14 mins; August 05, 2022
Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
13 mins; August 03, 2022
Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
14 mins; August 02, 2022
1922: Wimbledon
14 mins; August 02, 2022
Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
14 mins; August 01, 2022
1922: Reader's Digest
14 mins; August 01, 2022
Touki Bouki
45 mins; July 26, 2022
Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
45 mins; July 25, 2022
New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth ties
26 mins; July 25, 2022
Futurism
44 mins; July 22, 2022
Modernism around the world
44 mins; July 21, 2022
New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping
32 mins; July 21, 2022
The Daleks
45 mins; July 14, 2022
Satyajit Ray's films
44 mins; July 14, 2022
France, music hall and history
45 mins; July 13, 2022
Women warriors and power brokers
45 mins; July 13, 2022
The Black Fantastic
45 mins; July 07, 2022
Writing about money
45 mins; July 06, 2022
New Thinking: India in the archives
30 mins; July 06, 2022
Vampires and the Penny Dreadful
45 mins; June 30, 2022
David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist
45 mins; June 29, 2022
Belief, Habit & Religion
44 mins; June 28, 2022
Late works
45 mins; June 23, 2022
ETA Hoffmann
45 mins; June 22, 2022
New Thinking: Waiting
36 mins; June 22, 2022
Sheffield reinvented
45 mins; June 21, 2022
Slow Film and Ecology
45 mins; June 16, 2022
Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922
45 mins; June 15, 2022
South African writing
45 mins; June 14, 2022
John McGrath's Scottish Drama
44 mins; June 10, 2022
Victorian streets
44 mins; June 09, 2022
The Wolfson Prize 2022
45 mins; June 07, 2022
New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities
39 mins; June 07, 2022
Get Carter
45 mins; June 02, 2022
Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy
45 mins; June 01, 2022
Oceans and the Sea
45 mins; June 01, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet
14 mins; May 27, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art
