<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 | ||
| Who needs critics? | 2021-05-20 | ||
| Ghosts of the Spanish civil war | 2021-05-19 | ||
| The Wolfson History Prize 2021 | 2021-05-18 | ||
| Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings | 2021-05-13 | ||
| New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data | 2021-05-12 | ||
| Marlon James and Neil Gaiman | 2021-05-11 | ||
| Alison Bechdel | 2021-05-06 | ||
| Napoleon the gardener and art thief | 2021-05-05 | ||
| Samuel Johnson's circle | 2021-05-04 | ||
| Northern Ireland | 2021-04-29 | ||
| New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale | 2021-04-29 | ||
| New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop | 2021-04-28 | ||
| Links between Judaism and Christianity | 2021-04-28 | ||
| Epistemic Injustice | 2021-04-27 | ||
| New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers | 2021-04-27 | ||
| New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds | 2021-04-26 | ||
| New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far | 2021-04-25 | ||
| New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting? | 2021-04-23 | ||
| Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future | 2021-04-22 | ||
| New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup | 2021-04-21 |