<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 | ||
| The History of Sex | 2020-02-13 | ||
| The shadow of slavery | 2020-02-12 | ||
| Early cinema: why are we obsessed with firsts? | 2020-02-07 | ||
| Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture | 2020-02-05 | ||
| Mocking power past and present. | 2020-02-05 | ||
| New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution | 2020-01-31 | ||
| Fungi: An Alien Encounter | 2020-01-30 | ||
| How we see pregnancy past and present | 2020-01-30 | ||
| Remembering Auschwitz | 2020-01-28 | ||
| What is good listening? | 2020-01-24 | ||
| Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse | 2020-01-22 | ||
| Goddesses of academia | 2020-01-21 | ||
| New Thinking: About Face | 2020-01-17 | ||
| Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future | 2020-01-16 | ||
| Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer" | 2020-01-16 | ||
| Simplify your life | 2020-01-15 | ||
| Philosophy and Film | 2020-01-10 | ||
| Could there be a private language? | 2020-01-09 | ||
| Panpsychism - Is matter conscious? | 2020-01-09 | ||
| The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile | 2019-12-19 |