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rokewood.bsky.social
Defending the BBC! BBCFreeThinking spirited ep where @shahidhabari.bsky.social
talks to @lukekemp.bsky.social
Peter Hitchens, @nevillemorley.bsky.social
@philtinline.bsky.social @rhifirth.bsky.social
on Endings
Young Earthers lament the BBC’s absence of impartiality
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The end of civilisations and societies
Peter Hitchens, Rhiannon Firth, Neville Morley, Phil Tinline, Luke Kemp join Shahidha Bari
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November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
wanderinggaia.bsky.social
I’m on @BBCFreeThinking @BBCRadio3 at 10pm in v enjoyable conversation with @lewis_dartnell @David_Farrier & Rana Mitter. My R3 debut!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h09v
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Deep Time and Human History
Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mi...
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November 29, 2024 at 2:56 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
Sooo. Having been away, I am a couple of weeks behind with BBCFreeThinking BBCRadio4. annemcelvoy, Katherine Rundell (whose essays I loved), Emily_Baughan, miriam_cates, andrew_j_cooper GraceLockrobin —discussing 1 of my Mastermind subjects! 😉
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October 21, 2024 at 10:11 PM
mattpope.bsky.social
Tuned into @BBCRadio3 @BBCFreeThinking so I could focus on writing and they have a documentary on 1992's Ghostwatch! So of course I'm gripped, will the switchboards start ringing again at BH?
January 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
I’m not a foodie, but I do *love* salt (anchovies btw?). Drag however remains for me as boring as its name. But here is @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
& guests, inc @markmiodownik.bsky.social & Zoe Gilbert with BBCFreeThinking BBCRadio4 at its edgiest best☺️
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, A pinch of salt
A key preservative, the subject of taxes, a danger to plant-life - how much salt is good?
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March 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
anothercinna.bsky.social
Props to the much missed Philip Dodd for his shock at & doubling down on Peterson's sheer intellectual vacuity here. #BBCFreeThinking www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Free Thinking - Jordan B Peterson - BBC Sounds
Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets a YouTube star.
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December 15, 2024 at 10:41 AM
lauraphillips.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Political upheaval,the role of the #press+#freespeech, #divorce, the right of people to hold authority to account+a defence of regicide: the #poet #JohnMilton of #ParadiseLost fame thought+wrote about all of these issues.
Only the best conversations at #BBCFreeThinking.
Free Thinking - Milton and our modern world - BBC Sounds
It is 350 years since the death of Milton. We discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce.
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November 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM
anothercinna.bsky.social
You should listen to this again. For a different result. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social #BBCFreeThinking
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Free Thinking - Repetition - BBC Sounds
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss routine, repetition and our sense of time
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February 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
lauraphillips.bsky.social
Get your servant to peel you a grape and listen to last night's #BBCFreeThinking on Decadence and Declinism with @coldwarsteve @JaneDesmarais @timothy_stanley @NevilleMorley & Louisa Buck www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Get your servant to peel you a grape and listen to last night's #BBCFreeThinking on Decadence and Declinism with @coldwarsteve @JaneDesmarais @timothy_stanley @NevilleMorley & Louisa Buck https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002b77w
April 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
anothercinna.bsky.social
Helped in this matter by catching up on what constitutes #friendship : uplifting! #BBCRadio4 #BBCFreeThinking @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #WhenYoureDownAndTroubled
July 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
pittsmike.bsky.social
Much enjoyed talking archaeology with @annemcelvoy @BBCFreeThinking last night, what’s changing in #archaeology, aDNA, migrations etc, the big stories in Digging up Britain https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0009c8t @ 29 mins (start 10 mins before for Renee So & Alex Clark on...
January 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
I am absolutely delighted to see BBCFreeThinking returning to BBCRadio4. I still miss its R3 version & it won’t coax me away from Friday night junk TV like Rings of Power🙂. But with eg Anne McElvoy & @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social, it will remain unmissable radio
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September 14, 2024 at 7:45 AM
20thcflicks.bsky.social
Really enjoying @BBCFreeThinking. The benefits of coming to it late are I can delve into their archive of @DrMatthewSweet’s episodes! He brings a bit of theatre to everything he does and it’s joyous. The Cary Grant one with @charlottecrofts and @PamHutch is brilliant. Thanks all!
November 20, 2024 at 12:39 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
Now here is @BBCFreeThinking BBCRadio4 at its cornucopiac best.
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social & guests. On *rivalry*
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00237nj
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October 2, 2024 at 12:13 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
refreshing & epistemically diverse perspectives on science, method & the age of doubt here on BBCFreeThinking. @shahidhabari.bsky.social talks to Dafydd M Daniel @sandyknapp.bsky.social
@hannahdevlin.bsky.social
@nickebs.bsky.social
@adamrutherford.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The status of science
Shahidha Bari and guests discuss the status of science in society and culture.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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December 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
absorbing #ValentinesDay BBCFreeThinking BBCRadio4 lineup on the many meanings of romantic love. Suffice it to say Ann & I were dining out—in Perth 🥰. Rana Mitter with Susie Orbach @armanddangour.bsky.social
@rhymeswithditto.bsky.social
Catherine Wheatley, Mary Harrod
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, All we need is love
Susie Orbach, Armand D'Angour, Vittoria Fallanca, Mary Harrod and Catherine Wheatley.
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February 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
It’s not the sort of BBCFreeThinking topic that seizes my Centrist Dad heart quite as much as (say) the Gothic Sublime. But given the threats to our political order, Anne McElvoy (protagonist as well anchor) gets top quality from all her contributors
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Political Visions
Anne McElvoy sets off in search of the sunlit uplands.
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May 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
anothercinna.bsky.social
See also #DavidRunciman 's superb history of 1945, the how, what & what-ifs of what shaped British politics and social history over the last 80 years. #Postwar still on #BBCSounds & omnibussing on Friday nights in lieu of #BBCFreeThinking during the summer www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
July 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
So this is an interesting episode of BBCFreeThinking BBCRadio4. Mainly when it gets to the nugatory hokum of the Tarot. Though tbh little is added to philosopher Michael Dummett’s complete 1980 takedown ‘The Game of Tarot’. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Decision making
From think tanks and tallies to tarot, what tools do we use to help us choose our actions?
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February 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
anothercinna.bsky.social
Having excised speech from its schedule, bizarrely #BBCRadio3 hasn't let its #NewGenerationThinkers go to #BBCRadio4 alongside #BBCFreeThinking where their rather excellent essays would sit perfectly... This, on the radio essay & #Adorno is as good as any #APointOfView. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
March 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
jeremymillar.bsky.social
Took part in a discussion on the late, and undoubtedly very great, Chris Marker last night @BBCFreeThinking http://bbc.in/1lI7nK3
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Stealing Banksy? Vice Media,...
Samira Ahmed asks who owns street art, and whether it sho...
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December 5, 2024 at 7:03 AM
pittsmike.bsky.social
Great discussion last night about the fabulous Quatermass with @DrMatthewSweet @Markgatiss et al on @BBCFreeThinking. A little clip caught my ear... 1/5

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Free Thinking - Quatermass - BBC Sounds
Matthew Sweet celebrates the classic TV sci-fi series wit...
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January 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
anothercinna.bsky.social
A couple of discussions from #BBCFreeThinking where glimpses of the county's magical thinking can be had. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Essex
Looking beyond the stereotypes of the county that's often described as 'much maligned'.
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April 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
anothercinna.bsky.social
Wasn't expecting much of a hit from this #BBCFreeThinking but, well, that'll teach me! Company of #Wolves. #ADelicateBalance #rewilding #TrophicCascade #rethinking. @shahidhabari.bsky.social
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Free Thinking - Wolves - BBC Sounds
How wolves shape our world.
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May 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM