<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 | ||
| Fungi: An Alien Encounter | 2021-12-16 | ||
| Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue | 2021-12-15 | ||
| Early Buddhism; Sheila Rowbotham | 2021-12-14 | ||
| Witchcraft and Margaret Murray | 2021-12-09 | ||
| The TV Debate | 2021-12-08 | ||
| New Thinking: Research in Film Award Winners 2021 | 2021-12-08 | ||
| Ground-breaking history books | 2021-12-07 | ||
| The Day of the Triffids | 2021-12-02 | ||
| Caribbean art | 2021-12-01 | ||
| Dürer, Rhinos and Whales | 2021-11-30 | ||
| Toys | 2021-11-26 | ||
| Christopher Logue's War Music | 2021-11-24 | ||
| Romanian history and literature | 2021-11-23 | ||
| New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration | 2021-11-19 | ||
| Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil | 2021-11-19 | ||
| Marvin Gaye's What's Going On | 2021-11-17 | ||
| Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex | 2021-11-16 | ||
| New Thinking: Being Human 2021 | 2021-11-11 | ||
| Green Thinking: Climate Justice | 2021-11-10 | ||
| The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021 | 2021-11-09 |