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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.

The Radiophonic Workshop

43 mins; August 06, 2020

Greek classics and the sea plus a pair of novels byTolstoy and Dostoevsky

41 mins; July 29, 2020

Wole Soyinka's writing

45 mins; July 29, 2020

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

45 mins; July 28, 2020

Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland

45 mins; July 23, 2020

Dada and the power of Nonsense

45 mins; July 22, 2020

Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains

59 mins; July 22, 2020

New Thinking:Nature Writing

43 mins; July 15, 2020

Magic

46 mins; July 14, 2020

How do we build a new masculinity ?

43 mins; July 13, 2020

Egyptian Satire

12 mins; July 09, 2020

Pogroms and prejudice

14 mins; July 09, 2020

The consolation of philosophy and stories

45 mins; July 09, 2020

What does a black history curriculum look like?

45 mins; July 08, 2020

Prison Break

14 mins; July 03, 2020

Facing Facts

12 mins; July 03, 2020

Gambling, good leadership and economic history

45 mins; July 03, 2020

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

44 mins; July 01, 2020

Dam Fever and The Diaspora

14 mins; June 28, 2020

Not Quite Jean Muir

14 mins; June 28, 2020

Digging Deep

14 mins; June 28, 2020

Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

14 mins; June 28, 2020

Coming out Crip and Acts of Care

13 mins; June 28, 2020

Tudor Virtual Reality

13 mins; June 28, 2020

Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam

44 mins; June 26, 2020

Revisit: Arundhati Roy

44 mins; June 25, 2020

Rethinking the Curriculum

44 mins; June 22, 2020

Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology

48 mins; June 22, 2020

Queer Bloomsbury and stillness in art and dance

44 mins; June 17, 2020

Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species

44 mins; June 16, 2020

New Thinking: Refugees

43 mins; June 15, 2020

The future of theatre debate

43 mins; June 12, 2020

Failure and female friendship

45 mins; June 10, 2020

Dickens

44 mins; June 09, 2020

New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery

41 mins; June 07, 2020

Robin Askwith

44 mins; June 03, 2020

Revisit: Tokyo Story

44 mins; June 02, 2020

Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

44 mins; May 28, 2020

Sarah Perry

55 mins; May 27, 2020

Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken

43 mins; May 21, 2020

Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden

45 mins; May 21, 2020

Kindness

45 mins; May 20, 2020

The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi

45 mins; May 18, 2020

Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion

44 mins; May 14, 2020

The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton

43 mins; May 13, 2020

WW II radio propaganda & French relations

45 mins; May 06, 2020

Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia

45 mins; May 04, 2020

Revisit: Mark Haddon

43 mins; April 29, 2020

Cary Grant

44 mins; April 29, 2020

Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

43 mins; April 22, 2020

Alternative Realities

44 mins; April 20, 2020

Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf

43 mins; April 16, 2020

Deep Time and the Earth

56 mins; April 09, 2020

Belonging

43 mins; April 08, 2020

New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives

43 mins; April 07, 2020

Revisit: What does game playing teach us

42 mins; April 04, 2020

Knees

43 mins; April 02, 2020

New Thinking: Wordsworth

43 mins; March 31, 2020

The Declaration Of Arbroath

43 mins; March 25, 2020

How do we build a new masculinity ?

44 mins; March 24, 2020

What's so great about EM Forster

58 mins; March 23, 2020

Future Thinking

40 mins; March 20, 2020

Contagion and Viruses

40 mins; March 19, 2020

Shoes

44 mins; March 19, 2020

New Thinking: Science Fiction

48 mins; March 18, 2020

Does Growth Matter?

47 mins; March 17, 2020

Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture

45 mins; March 12, 2020

Advertising & Artemisia

44 mins; March 11, 2020

Fighting Women

44 mins; March 10, 2020

Jewish Identity in 2020

44 mins; March 06, 2020

Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

14 mins; March 05, 2020

Frank Ramsey

62 hours 34 mins; March 05, 2020

New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality

45 mins; March 04, 2020

Anne Enright + the value of gossip

44 mins; March 04, 2020

Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf

14 mins; February 28, 2020

Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

14 mins; February 28, 2020

Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

13 mins; February 28, 2020

Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

14 mins; February 28, 2020

How archictecture shapes society

45 mins; February 27, 2020

New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people

39 mins; February 27, 2020

Japan Now 2020

45 mins; February 27, 2020

Genes, racism, ageing and evidence

44 mins; February 25, 2020

African Empire Stories

65 hours 37 mins; February 20, 2020

The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky

46 mins; February 19, 2020

Queer histories

49 mins; February 13, 2020

The History of Sex

45 mins; February 13, 2020

The shadow of slavery

44 mins; February 12, 2020

Early cinema: why are we obsessed with firsts?

44 mins; February 07, 2020

Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture

45 mins; February 05, 2020

Mocking power past and present.

44 mins; February 05, 2020

New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution

46 mins; January 31, 2020

Fungi: An Alien Encounter

46 mins; January 30, 2020

How we see pregnancy past and present

45 mins; January 30, 2020

Remembering Auschwitz

45 mins; January 28, 2020

What is good listening?

46 mins; January 24, 2020

Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse

45 mins; January 22, 2020

Goddesses of academia

46 mins; January 21, 2020

New Thinking: About Face

40 mins; January 17, 2020

Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future

45 mins; January 16, 2020

Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"

45 mins; January 16, 2020

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