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.
Oceans, art and pacific poetry
44 mins; November 02, 2021
Green Thinking: Law
25 mins; November 01, 2021
Time
44 mins; October 29, 2021
Green Thinking: Media
26 mins; October 28, 2021
New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music
47 mins; October 28, 2021
Green Thinking: Trees
26 mins; October 26, 2021
Twilight
44 mins; October 26, 2021
Green Thinking: Sustainable Development
26 mins; October 25, 2021
Celebrating Buchi Emecheta
44 mins; October 23, 2021
The Language of Flowers
45 mins; October 21, 2021
Green Thinking: History of climate summits
26 mins; October 21, 2021
Rationality & Tradition
44 mins; October 20, 2021
Green Thinking: Landscapes
26 mins; October 20, 2021
New Thinking: Black British Theatre. An Afro-Cuban star
43 mins; October 19, 2021
Green Thinking: how we see nature
26 mins; October 15, 2021
Sugar
44 mins; October 14, 2021
Colour
44 mins; October 13, 2021
Frieze: Museums in the 21st century
45 mins; October 12, 2021
Green Thinking: Health
26 mins; October 08, 2021
Choice
45 mins; October 07, 2021
New Thinking: Black British Theatre
34 mins; October 06, 2021
The British Academy Book Prize 2021
45 mins; October 06, 2021
Breakfast
44 mins; October 05, 2021
Green Thinking: Transport
25 mins; October 01, 2021
Order & Chaos
45 mins; September 30, 2021
Thomas Mann
45 mins; September 29, 2021
New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time
37 mins; September 28, 2021
The continuing appeal of Tudor history
44 mins; September 28, 2021
Punk
45 mins; September 23, 2021
Green Thinking: Soil
26 mins; September 23, 2021
Hannah Arendt's exploration of Totalitarianism
45 mins; September 21, 2021
Belonging
45 mins; September 16, 2021
Green Thinking: Fashion
26 mins; September 16, 2021
Glitches
44 mins; September 15, 2021
Dante's visions
44 mins; September 14, 2021
Saint John Henry Newman
44 mins; July 29, 2021
Revisit Shoes
44 mins; July 28, 2021
Revisit The influence of the British black arts movement
44 mins; July 27, 2021
Revisit: Tokyo Idols and Urban Life
44 mins; July 23, 2021
Revisit Rashōmon
43 mins; July 22, 2021
Bette Davis
44 mins; July 20, 2021
Green Thinking: Food
26 mins; July 20, 2021
Connecting with nature
44 mins; July 19, 2021
Alain Robbe-Grillet
44 mins; July 14, 2021
Green Thinking: Weather
26 mins; July 14, 2021
Breathe
44 mins; July 13, 2021
Green Thinking: Festivals
26 mins; July 09, 2021
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
44 mins; July 08, 2021
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
44 mins; July 08, 2021
Epic Iran, lost cities and Proust
44 mins; July 08, 2021
The English country house party
44 mins; July 06, 2021
Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
44 mins; July 01, 2021
New Thinking:The Innovative Shape of Poems
44 mins; June 30, 2021
Green Thinking: Sustainable Cities
26 mins; June 29, 2021
Cornwall and the Coastal Gothic
44 mins; June 29, 2021
Green Thinking: Climate Change and Heritage
26 mins; June 25, 2021
World's Fairs and the future
45 mins; June 24, 2021
Green Thinking: Climate Change and Literature
26 mins; June 24, 2021
Mid Century Modern
44 mins; June 23, 2021
Building London
44 mins; June 22, 2021
Masks
45 mins; June 17, 2021
Displacement
44 mins; June 16, 2021
Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas
44 mins; June 15, 2021
Green Thinking: Climate and Refugees
26 mins; June 15, 2021
How anthropology helps us understand the world
44 mins; June 11, 2021
How anthropology helps us understand the world
44 mins; June 11, 2021
Green Thinking: Hot Money
26 mins; June 10, 2021
Beryl Vertue
45 mins; June 09, 2021
Women's Art
44 mins; June 08, 2021
Green Thinking: Seascapes and Blue Gold
26 mins; June 08, 2021
Green Thinking: Climate and Conflict
26 mins; June 05, 2021
Green Thinking: Future of Work
26 mins; June 04, 2021
Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?
43 mins; June 03, 2021
Alice and Dreaming
44 mins; June 02, 2021
New Thinking: The Botanical Past
44 mins; June 01, 2021
Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100
62 hours 55 mins; May 27, 2021
Fashion, Art, and the Body
45 mins; May 26, 2021
Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?
45 mins; May 25, 2021
Who needs critics?
45 mins; May 20, 2021
Ghosts of the Spanish civil war
45 mins; May 19, 2021
The Wolfson History Prize 2021
45 mins; May 18, 2021
Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings
45 mins; May 13, 2021
New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data
44 mins; May 12, 2021
Marlon James and Neil Gaiman
45 mins; May 11, 2021
Alison Bechdel
45 mins; May 06, 2021
Napoleon the gardener and art thief
45 mins; May 05, 2021
Samuel Johnson's circle
45 mins; May 04, 2021
Northern Ireland
45 mins; April 29, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale
13 mins; April 29, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop
14 mins; April 28, 2021
Links between Judaism and Christianity
46 mins; April 28, 2021
Epistemic Injustice
44 mins; April 27, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers
13 mins; April 27, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds
13 mins; April 26, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far
13 mins; April 25, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?
14 mins; April 23, 2021
Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
45 mins; April 22, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup
13 mins; April 21, 2021
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons
44 mins; April 21, 2021
The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress
