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Free Thinking

Radio 4's ideas programme, where leading thinkers explore the threads connecting history, culture, and the present.

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Cover of The Story of Tudor Art

The Story of Tudor Art

by Christina J. Faraday
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Jan 9, 2026
Cover of Nostalgia

Nostalgia

by Agnes Arnold-Forster
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Jan 9, 2026
Cover of Embracing Uncertainty

Embracing Uncertainty

by Margaret Heffernan
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Jan 9, 2026
Cover of Your Life Is Manufactured

Your Life Is Manufactured

by Tim Minshall
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Jan 9, 2026
Cover of Recommended

Recommended

by Nicola Wilson
Front Row · BBC Radio 4 · Jan 6, 2026
Cover of The Unfragile Mind

The Unfragile Mind

by Gavin Francis
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Dec 12, 2025
Cover of The Bridge Between Worlds

The Bridge Between Worlds

by Gavin Francis
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Dec 12, 2025
Cover of How to Live Like a Stoic

How to Live Like a Stoic

by Tom Hodgkinson
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Dec 12, 2025

Idle Thoughts

by Tom Hodgkinson
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Dec 12, 2025
Cover of Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

by Hannah Durkin
Start the Week · BBC Radio 4 · Dec 8, 2025