1077 Episodes

  1. East West religious connections

    Published: 1/31/2024

  2. Secrets, Lies & Irish History

    Published: 1/30/2024

  3. Holocaust history

    Published: 1/26/2024

  4. The Kyoto School

    Published: 1/24/2024

  5. Heidegger & Antisemitism

    Published: 1/23/2024

  6. What is normal?

    Published: 1/19/2024

  7. Shakespeare's Women

    Published: 1/17/2024

  8. Dust, dirt and domesticity

    Published: 1/16/2024

  9. Octavia Butler's Kindred

    Published: 1/11/2024

  10. Essay writing

    Published: 1/10/2024

  11. Travel, pleasure and peril

    Published: 1/3/2024

  12. Dickens, Disney and copyright

    Published: 12/21/2023

  13. New Thinking: Carols and Convents

    Published: 12/20/2023

  14. Greek myth, goddesses and art

    Published: 12/20/2023

  15. Prize Winners 2023

    Published: 12/19/2023

  16. Harry Belafonte

    Published: 12/15/2023

  17. Margaret Cavendish

    Published: 12/13/2023

  18. Narnia and CS Lewis

    Published: 12/6/2023

  19. Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter

    Published: 12/5/2023

  20. New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre

    Published: 12/1/2023

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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.