<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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Rethinking Tradition | 2018-01-02 | ||
| A Literary Salon. | 2017-12-14 | ||
| Should We Keep Pets? | 2017-12-13 | ||
| Landmark - This Sporting Life | 2017-12-12 | ||
| Many faces of Eve? | 2017-12-07 | ||
| The Joy of Bad Films | 2017-12-06 | ||
| Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment | 2017-12-05 | ||
| Ken Burns – Flash photography - Joy | 2017-11-30 | ||
| Gentrification | 2017-11-30 | ||
| Free Thinking – David Willetts plus does scandal drive social change? | 2017-11-28 |