<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 | ||
| Reflecting Rural Life | 2018-02-15 | ||
| Free Thinking: Mark Dion; Colour, Insects, Virginia Woolf | 2018-02-14 | ||
| How Big Should the State Be? | 2018-02-14 | ||
| Michael Ignatieff and Central Europe | 2018-02-13 | ||
| Tariq Ali | 2018-02-08 | ||
| Celebrating Buchi Emecheta | 2018-02-08 | ||
| Trade, Davos, Ocean travel and Mermaids | 2018-02-02 | ||
| The Working Class in Culture | 2018-02-01 | ||
| Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries | 2018-01-30 | ||
| Burns the Radical; Exploration | 2018-01-25 | ||
| Royalty, art and patronage. | 2018-01-24 | ||
| Oscar Contenders, Movie Moguls and Silent Film Stars | 2018-01-23 | ||
| Frankenstein and AI now. | 2018-01-18 | ||
| French writing and politics | 2018-01-17 | ||
| Australian novelist Peter Carey. | 2018-01-16 | ||
| Counterculture and Protest | 2018-01-11 | ||
| The In Between | 2018-01-10 | ||
| Landmark: The Odyssey | 2018-01-09 | ||
| Diving Deep | 2018-01-04 | ||
| The Invention of the Circus Ring | 2018-01-03 |