<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 | ||
| Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future | 2020-01-16 | ||
| Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer" | 2020-01-16 | ||
| Simplify your life | 2020-01-15 | ||
| Philosophy and Film | 2020-01-10 | ||
| Could there be a private language? | 2020-01-09 | ||
| Panpsychism - Is matter conscious? | 2020-01-09 | ||
| The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile | 2019-12-19 | ||
| The culture wars and politics now. | 2019-12-18 | ||
| Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World | 2019-12-18 | ||
| New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories | 2019-12-13 | ||
| Speaking the right language. | 2019-12-13 | ||
| The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton | 2019-12-12 | ||
| Pan-Africanism | 2019-12-10 | ||
| The shadow of empire and colonialism | 2019-12-05 | ||
| Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security | 2019-12-04 | ||
| When TV & the information superhighway were new | 2019-12-03 | ||
| Resting And Rushing | 2019-11-28 | ||
| The future of universities | 2019-11-27 | ||
| Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China? | 2019-11-26 | ||
| New Thinking: George Eliot | 2019-11-22 |