<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 | ||
| Coins, the magic money tree and a cashless world | 2021-02-12 | ||
| Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871) | 2021-02-10 | ||
| New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums | 2021-02-09 | ||
| Class and social mobility | 2021-02-04 | ||
| Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman | 2021-02-03 | ||
| New Thinking: Eco-Criticism | 2021-02-02 | ||
| What Makes a Good Lecture? | 2021-01-30 | ||
| Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France | 2021-01-27 | ||
| Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan | 2021-01-26 | ||
| John Rawls's A Theory of Justice | 2021-01-21 | ||
| James Baldwin and race in USA | 2021-01-20 | ||
| Harlots & 18th Century Working Women | 2021-01-19 | ||
| Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil | 2021-01-14 | ||
| New Thinking: Women and Slavery | 2021-01-13 | ||
| Autism, film and patterns | 2021-01-12 | ||
| New Thinking: Aphra Behn | 2021-01-08 | ||
| Dostoevsky | 2021-01-06 | ||
| Mildred Pierce | 2021-01-05 | ||
| Marlene Dietrich | 2020-12-17 | ||
| Winter Light | 2020-12-16 |