Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009
Radio 3's festival of ideas, featuring interviews, talks, public debates, drama and live performance. With contributions from today's leading thinkers, artists, scientists and writers
Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Concluding Discussion
Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival of ideas, taking place at the Sage, Gateshead. Its main theme is the 21st-century family
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Dan Cruickshank: Building Memories
Globe-trotting architect Dan Cruickshank puts the case for the restoration, repair and recreation of lost historic buildings in a lecture given at the 2009 Free Thinking festival.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Free Thinking - David Miliband
In an interview from Free Thinking 2009, Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd about his family background, his political life and his vision for democracy.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Free Thinking festival 2009
Recorded in front of an audience at the Sage in Gateshead, Rana Mitter hosts a public debate as part of the 2009 Free Thinking festival of ideas: Is The West Losing Its Nerve?
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Free Thinking - Gwen Adshead
Psychotherapist Gwen Adshead on why we must come to terms with womens' involvement with some of the most serious crimes. Philip Dodd hosts. Contains some disturbing images.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Free Thinking - Ken Livingstone
At the 2009 Free Thinking festival, Anne McElvoy introduces a discussion at the Sage, Gateshead, in which Ken Livingstone asks if the North-South divide still matters.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Free Thinking - The Future of Men
Richard Moss hosts a panel debate at the 2009 Free Thinking ideas festival asking if the 21st century is a hostile environment for men and what sort of future lies ahead for them.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Free Thinking - William Orbit
For 2009's Free Thinking festival, music producer William Orbit presents his personal guide to the world of sound in a special event in front of an audience at the Sage, Gateshead.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Julia Neuberger - Mind the Gap
For Free Thinking 2009, Julia Neuberger gives a lecture arguing that intergenerational relationships in Britain are at an all-time low - and that our senior citizens are neglected.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Landmarks: Land of Three Rivers
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and Wear. Do they unite the region or are they used to suggest a cultural unity that does not exist?
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Lionel Shriver/Ian McMillan
As part of Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival of ideas, Anne McElvoy is joined by novelist Lionel Shriver for an audience discussion about her 1996 novel A Perfectly Good Family.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Lisa Jardine
Prof Lisa Jardine, of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, gives a lecture on why the science of reproduction will create some of the most challenging ethical dilemmas.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Michael Brearley: Narcissism and Leadership
As part of BBC Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival, former England cricket captain and president of the British Psychoanalytical Society Michael Brearley talks about leadership.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Opening Lecture - Tanya Byron
Presented by Matthew Sweet. Tanya Byron delivers the opening lecture in Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival, giving her vision of the challenges ahead for the 21st century family.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Sarah Hall/Hugh Pym/Speed Dating with a Thinker
Highlights from 2009's Free Thinking ideas festival, including Sarah Hall on what influences her books, BBC journalist Hugh Pym on the credit crunch and speed-dating with a thinker.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Sport or the Arts
In an audience discussion recorded at 2009's Free Thinking festival, Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.
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Night Waves - Free Thinking 2009 - Tom Shakespeare
In a talk from 2009's Free Thinking festival, scientist Tom Shakespeare asks how art can help solve complex moral issues like the right to die and ante-natal disability screeening.
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