<p>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.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics | 2022-11-02 | ||
| Alexander the Great | 2022-11-01 | ||
| New Thinking: Beowulf | 2022-10-28 | ||
| Ghostwatch | 2022-10-27 | ||
| Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire | 2022-10-26 | ||
| New Thinking: Dead Languages | 2022-10-26 | ||
| Oliver Postgate | 2022-10-21 | ||
| British Academy Book Prize 2022 | 2022-10-18 | ||
| Romanticism Revisited | 2022-10-13 | ||
| The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022 | 2022-10-12 | ||
| New Thinking: Accents | 2022-10-12 | ||
| Miles Davis and On The Corner | 2022-10-11 | ||
| How We Read | 2022-10-07 | ||
| Female power and influence past and present | 2022-10-05 | ||
| My Neighbour Totoro | 2022-10-04 | ||
| John Cowper Powys | 2022-09-29 | ||
| Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance | 2022-09-28 | ||
| Ibsen | 2022-09-26 | ||
| The Black Country - past and present | 2022-09-23 | ||
| The Black Country - past and present | 2022-09-22 |