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.
Tattoos
44 mins; May 19, 2022
Goddesses
43 mins; May 18, 2022
Gandhi, Indian Architecture
45 mins; May 18, 2022
Soil
45 mins; May 17, 2022
Speaking Welsh
45 mins; May 16, 2022
New Thinking: Flooding and Energy
34 mins; May 16, 2022
Soho
44 mins; May 13, 2022
Mental Health
45 mins; May 06, 2022
Odessa Stories
45 mins; May 05, 2022
Pause for Thought
14 mins; May 05, 2022
Opium Tales
12 mins; May 05, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: Alexander and the Persians
13 mins; May 04, 2022
Windows
44 mins; May 04, 2022
Kawanabe KyĹŤsai and Yukio Mishima
45 mins; May 03, 2022
A Brazilian soprano in jazz-age Paris
15 mins; May 02, 2022
John Baptist Dasalu and fighting for freedom
15 mins; April 29, 2022
May Day rituals
44 mins; April 29, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation
13 mins; April 27, 2022
Rainer Maria Rilke
44 mins; April 27, 2022
New Generation Thinkers: Walking with the ghosts of the Durham coalfield
14 mins; April 25, 2022
Teaching and Inspiration
44 mins; April 21, 2022
Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound
44 mins; April 20, 2022
New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage
44 mins; April 19, 2022
Housework
44 mins; April 15, 2022
Ships and History
45 mins; April 13, 2022
Grief
44 mins; April 08, 2022
China: world politics, ink art & insomnia
44 mins; April 06, 2022
Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment
44 mins; April 06, 2022
New Generation Thinkers 2022
45 mins; March 31, 2022
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap
44 mins; March 30, 2022
Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon
44 mins; March 29, 2022
After Dark Festival: Dark Places
44 mins; March 25, 2022
After Dark Festival: Equinox
44 mins; March 25, 2022
John Maynard Keynes
44 mins; March 22, 2022
Vikings
44 mins; March 17, 2022
The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture
44 mins; March 16, 2022
Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring
13 mins; March 14, 2022
Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history
13 mins; March 14, 2022
Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns
13 mins; March 14, 2022
Fashion Stories: In a handbag
14 mins; March 14, 2022
Fashion Stories: Body Armour
12 mins; March 14, 2022
Blackmail & Shame
44 mins; March 10, 2022
New Thinking: Women’s history
41 mins; March 09, 2022
New Thinking: Women’s history
41 mins; March 08, 2022
Sisters
44 mins; March 06, 2022
The Generation Gap
44 mins; March 03, 2022
The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain
44 mins; March 02, 2022
Climate change, nature and art
44 mins; March 02, 2022
Perfecting The Body
44 mins; February 24, 2022
New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets
19 mins; February 24, 2022
Pankaj Mishra, research into Indian history
44 mins; February 24, 2022
Artists' models and fame
44 mins; February 23, 2022
Hitchhiking
44 mins; February 17, 2022
China, Freud, war and sci fi
44 mins; February 16, 2022
Stonehenge history
44 mins; February 15, 2022
Existential Risk
44 mins; February 10, 2022
Whale watching
44 mins; February 09, 2022
Whale-watching
44 mins; February 09, 2022
Diverse Classical Music II
41 mins; February 08, 2022
Futurism
44 mins; February 03, 2022
Modernism Around The World
44 mins; February 02, 2022
Paper
44 mins; February 02, 2022
How To Make A Modernist Masterpiece
44 mins; February 01, 2022
Asta Nielsen
44 mins; January 27, 2022
Yishai Sarid; marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
44 mins; January 26, 2022
New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music
45 mins; January 24, 2022
Touki Bouki
44 mins; January 21, 2022
New Thinking: Mental Health Research
40 mins; January 18, 2022
Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones
