<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: Accents | 2022-10-12 | ||
| Miles Davis and On The Corner | 2022-10-11 | ||
| How We Read | 2022-10-07 | ||
| Female power and influence past and present | 2022-10-05 | ||
| My Neighbour Totoro | 2022-10-04 | ||
| John Cowper Powys | 2022-09-29 | ||
| Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance | 2022-09-28 | ||
| Ibsen | 2022-09-26 | ||
| The Black Country - past and present | 2022-09-23 | ||
| The Black Country - past and present | 2022-09-22 | ||
| The Normans | 2022-09-21 | ||
| Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales | 2022-09-20 | ||
| Immortality | 2022-09-16 | ||
| The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries | 2022-09-14 | ||
| New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak? | 2022-09-13 | ||
| 1922: The Hollywood Bowl | 2022-09-06 | ||
| 1922: The Lincoln Memorial | 2022-09-02 | ||
| Prison Break | 2022-08-26 | ||
| Egyptian Satire | 2022-08-25 | ||
| Pogroms and Prejudice | 2022-08-24 |