Arts & Ideas
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.
Latest Episode
Idleness (13.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Influencing History
- Marriage
- Rocks
- Revenge and reconciliation
- The end of civilisations and societies
- Rational and Irrational decision making
- Traditions, roots and local pride
- The status of Science
- The Good Life
- Finding my tribe
- Friendship
- Censorship, editing and self-censorship
- Christian faith, politics and culture
- Language
- Failure
- Podcasting difficult histories
- Common Sense
- Power: A User's Guide
- WOLVES
- Political Visions
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