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Free Thinking

BBC Radio 4

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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1,529 episodes

  1. What's So Good About Democracy? 56:40
  2. Bread 56:55
  3. Reading Against the Grain 56:48
  4. The Example of St Francis 56:52
  5. Intellectuals 56:40
  6. The Ethics of Knowledge 56:43
  7. Trade and Traffic 56:45
  8. The Child's Eye View 56:26
  9. Eccentrics & Outsiders 56:52
  10. Satire and Gulliver's Travels 56:43
  11. Wealth 56:51
  12. Free Thinking at the Hay Festival: Responsibility 56:33
  13. Thinking with Food 56:52
  14. Technologies of the Self 57:02
  15. The Middle 57:00
  16. Weapons, Real and Symbolic 56:28
  17. Purity 56:31
  18. Humility 56:56
  19. Oral Tradition and Oracy 56:44
  20. Taste 56:48
  21. Women, Language and Experience 56:59
  22. Authority 57:15
  23. Crime and Punishment: Medieval to Modern 56:31
  24. Working Class Creativity 56:50
  25. Is Might Right? 56:49
  26. Labour, Work and Productivity 57:08
  27. Double Lives 56:33
  28. Victorian Values 56:34
  29. Innovation 56:38
  30. Travel 56:54
  31. Idleness 56:38
  32. Influencing History 56:44
  33. Marriage 56:48
  34. Rocks 56:52
  35. Revenge and Reconciliation 56:56
  36. The end of civilisations and societies 56:49
  37. Rational and Irrational decision making 57:02
  38. Traditions, roots and local pride 56:31
  39. The status of science 58:00
  40. What is a good life? 56:58
  41. Finding my tribe 56:44
  42. Friendship 56:58
  43. Censorship, editing and self-censorship 57:07
  44. Christian faith, politics and culture 56:21
  45. Language 56:44
  46. Failure 56:56
  47. Podcasting difficult histories 56:59
  48. Common Sense 56:51
  49. Power: A User's Guide 57:00
  50. Wolves 56:41