<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 | ||
| Power to the People? | 2018-03-21 | ||
| Free Thinking Essay: When Shakespeare Travelled With Me | 2018-03-20 | ||
| Are We Afraid of Being Alone? | 2018-03-20 | ||
| Free Thinking Essay: A War of Words | 2018-03-19 | ||
| Free Thinking Essay: Doing Nothing | 2018-03-16 | ||
| Free Thinking Essay: Educating Ida | 2018-03-15 | ||
| Has Social Media Cracked the Code to the Crowd? | 2018-03-15 | ||
| Podcast: There Is No I in Team | 2018-03-15 | ||
| Free Thinking Essay: Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith? | 2018-03-15 | ||
| Free Thinking Essay:Art for Health's Sake | 2018-03-14 | ||
| The Dance of Nature | 2018-03-14 | ||
| Free Thinking Essay: Welling Up: Women & Water in the Middle Ages | 2018-03-13 | ||
| The Population Bomb | 2018-03-12 | ||
| The Free Thinking Lecture: Linda Yueh on Globalisation | 2018-03-09 | ||
| New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement. | 2018-03-08 | ||
| The Golden Notebook | 2018-03-07 | ||
| A Sentimental Journey | 2018-03-01 | ||
| What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs | 2018-02-28 | ||
| The Joy of Bureaucracy | 2018-02-22 | ||
| Steven Pinker on Progress | 2018-02-22 |