<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 | ||
| Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage | 2018-05-30 | ||
| Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas | 2018-05-29 | ||
| Tacita Dean; Mountains, John Tyndall | 2018-05-24 | ||
| The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate | 2018-05-23 | ||
| In Conversation: Philip Roth (1933 - 2018) | 2018-05-23 | ||
| Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch | 2018-05-22 | ||
| Jordan B Peterson | 2018-05-17 | ||
| Designing the future | 2018-05-17 | ||
| John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism | 2018-05-16 | ||
| What is Speech? | 2018-05-10 | ||
| Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan | 2018-05-09 | ||
| Out of Control? | 2018-05-08 | ||
| Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars | 2018-05-04 | ||
| Marxism | 2018-05-02 | ||
| America: Inequality & Race | 2018-05-01 | ||
| Tokyo Idols and Urban life. | 2018-04-26 | ||
| Landmark: Rashōmon | 2018-04-25 | ||
| Japan and Nature | 2018-04-25 | ||
| Learning from Sweden | 2018-04-19 | ||
| Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer | 2018-04-18 |