<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 | ||
| New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk | 2021-03-09 | ||
| Speech, Voice, Accents and AI Free Thinking | 2021-03-04 | ||
| Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith | 2021-03-03 | ||
| New Thinking: Girls | 2021-03-02 | ||
| Saint John Henry Newman | 2021-03-01 | ||
| Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4 | 2021-02-25 | ||
| Humans, Animals, Ecologies | 2021-02-24 | ||
| Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien & Violette Leduc | 2021-02-19 | ||
| Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history | 2021-02-17 | ||
| Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies | 2021-02-16 | ||
| 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 |