<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 | ||
| Rocky Horror and camp | 2023-05-17 | ||
| Zimbabwean writing | 2023-05-16 | ||
| Agoraphobia | 2023-05-12 | ||
| Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science | 2023-05-10 | ||
| Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe | 2023-05-08 | ||
| Kingship and ceremony | 2023-05-05 | ||
| Sidney Poitier | 2023-05-04 | ||
| Sound, conflict and central heating | 2023-05-02 | ||
| Lady Antonia Fraser | 2023-04-27 | ||
| Queen Charlotte, fashion and music | 2023-04-25 | ||
| New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day | 2023-04-20 | ||
| Hilma af Klint | 2023-04-20 | ||
| Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing | 2023-04-19 | ||
| Galatea and Shakespeare | 2023-04-18 | ||
| Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite | 2023-04-13 | ||
| Land and soil politics | 2023-04-13 | ||
| Ginger Rogers | 2023-04-12 | ||
| Children of the Waters | 2023-04-11 | ||
| Pirates | 2023-04-11 | ||
| Revolutionary free speech | 2023-04-07 |