What's So Good About Democracy?
23 Oct 2026
56m
BBC Radio 4 ยท Arts & Culture
Free Thinking
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives - looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
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The Ethics of Knowledge
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The Child's Eye View
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Wealth
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Technologies of the Self
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The Middle
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Weapons, real and symbolic
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Weapons, real and symbolic
01 May 2026
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Purity
24 Apr 2026
56m
Humility
27 Mar 2026
56m
Oral tradition and oracy
20 Mar 2026
56m
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