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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.

Episodes

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Taste

16 Mar 2026
56m
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Women, language & experience

06 Mar 2026
56m
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Authority

27 Feb 2026
57m
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Crime and punishment medieval to modern

20 Feb 2026
56m
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Working Class Creativity

13 Feb 2026
56m
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Is Might Right?

06 Feb 2026
56m
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Labour, work and productivity

30 Jan 2026
57m
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Double Lives

23 Jan 2026
56m
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Victorian Values

16 Jan 2026
56m
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Innovation

09 Jan 2026
56m
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Travel

02 Jan 2026
56m
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Idleness

12 Dec 2025
56m
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Influencing History

05 Dec 2025
56m
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Marriage

28 Nov 2025
56m
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Rocks

21 Nov 2025
56m
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Revenge and reconciliation

14 Nov 2025
56m
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The end of civilisations and societies

07 Nov 2025
56m
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Rational and Irrational decision making

24 Oct 2025
57m
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Traditions, roots and local pride

17 Oct 2025
56m
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The status of Science

10 Oct 2025
58m
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