Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010
Radio 3's ideas festival, with interviews, talks, debates, drama and live performance. With contributions from leading thinkers, artists, scientists and writers. The theme is the pursuit of happiness
Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Academics and the Media: Friends or Foes?
Rana Mitter hosts a debate at 2010's Free Thinking festival, entitled Academics and the Media: Friends or Foes? Is the media really the opportunity for scholars to reach millions?
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Ben Franklin and Shopping
In an audience discussion given at the Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival, TV presenter Kevin McCloud makes a public plea for the return of craftsmanship.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Can the Government Make You Happy?
In an audience discussion held at the Sage Gateshead, Philip Dodd brings together two leading thinkers and policy-makers to debate the question 'can the Government make you happy?'.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Comedy or Tragedy
Matthew Sweet chairs a debate on the subject of which approach to life and art is more illuminating - comedy or tragedy. With comedian Natalie Haynes and novelist Julian Gough.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Do Possessions Make Us Happy?
Rana Mitter joins a panel and an audience for the 2010 Free Thinking festival to ask: do possessions make us happy? With novelist Sarah Dunant and religious writer Sara Maitland.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Emancipation: A Listener's Guide
Presented by Rana Mitter. As part of Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival, jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch delivers a lecture entitled Emancipation: A Listener's Guide.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Free Thinking 2010
Matthew Sweet is joined by a round-table of guests weekend to reflect on the interviews, lectures and audience comment during the 2010 Free Thinking ideas festival.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Free Thinking - Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson launches Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival of ideas with a lecture from the Sage Gateshead entitled Beyond the Fairytale: Happiness in the Real World.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Has God Gone Global?
Philip Dodd chairs an audience discussion at the Sage Gateshead in which a panel debates the question Has God Gone Global?, as part of Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Is the Book Dead?
Philip Dodd hosts a debate from one of Britain's largest second-hand bookshops in which publishers, authors and an audience of readers consider the question - is the book dead?
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Marriage
Anne McElvoy chairs an audience debate at the 2010 Free Thinking festival in which writer Frank Cottrell Boyce discusses the subject of marriage. Does it need rescuing?
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Philosopher Angie Hobbs on Heroes
Presented by Rana Mitter. In a discussion from the 2010 Free Thinking ideas festival, Dr Angie Hobbs debates today's idea of heroism in war, social justice, the arts and sport.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - The Joys of Failure
Leading screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce delivers a lecture at this year's Free Thinking festival on The Joys of Failure. Bad ideas have often led to great discoveries, he claims.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Universities
In a discussion from the University of Sunderland, Philip Dodd and a panel of students and academics considers the question of what we really want from universities and graduates.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - Violence - A New Perspective
With Philip Dodd. In a debate from the Sage Gateshead for 2010's Free Thinking, former Metropolitan Police head Lord Blair discusses the part violence plays in human behaviour.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - What Acting Can Teach You in Life
Presented by Anne McElvoy. Actress Fiona Shaw joins an audience discussion at The Sage Gateshead to explore the question 'what acting can teach you about life'.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2010 - What Does Britain Do Best: Sport or the Arts?
A historic first as BBC Radio 3 and 5 live join together for a live debate. Come and take sides as a team of 5 live sports fans battle with a panel of Radio 3 arts lovers.
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