<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 | ||
| Robin Askwith | 2020-06-03 | ||
| Revisit: Tokyo Story | 2020-06-02 | ||
| Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage | 2020-05-28 | ||
| Sarah Perry | 2020-05-27 | ||
| Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken | 2020-05-21 | ||
| Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden | 2020-05-21 | ||
| Kindness | 2020-05-20 | ||
| The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi | 2020-05-18 | ||
| Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion | 2020-05-14 | ||
| The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton | 2020-05-13 | ||
| WW II radio propaganda & French relations | 2020-05-06 | ||
| Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia | 2020-05-04 | ||
| Revisit: Mark Haddon | 2020-04-29 | ||
| Cary Grant | 2020-04-29 | ||
| Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring | 2020-04-22 | ||
| Alternative Realities | 2020-04-21 | ||
| Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf | 2020-04-16 | ||
| Deep Time and the Earth | 2020-04-09 | ||
| Belonging | 2020-04-08 | ||
| New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives | 2020-04-07 |