<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 | ||
| The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion | 2019-04-17 | ||
| Should Doctors Cry? | 2019-04-16 | ||
| Where Do Human Rights Come From? | 2019-04-12 | ||
| The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea | 2019-04-11 | ||
| The Unsaid | 2019-04-11 | ||
| Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ? | 2019-04-10 | ||
| The Way We Used To Feel | 2019-04-10 | ||
| Who Wrote Animal Farm? | 2019-04-09 | ||
| How They Manipulate Our Emotions | 2019-04-09 | ||
| Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival | 2019-04-09 | ||
| Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century | 2019-04-08 | ||
| The Emotion of Now | 2019-04-08 | ||
| Healthy Eating Edwardian Style | 2019-04-05 | ||
| 'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get? | 2019-04-05 | ||
| Shopping Around the Baby Market | 2019-04-04 | ||
| Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go | 2019-04-03 | ||
| Being Diplomatic | 2019-04-03 | ||
| The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama | 2019-04-02 | ||
| Anxiety and the Teenage Brain | 2019-04-02 | ||
| A city is not a park but should it be? | 2019-04-02 |