Free Thinking 2009
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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

First Broadcast23 Oct 2009
Latest Broadcast22 Apr 2010
Episodes17

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Episodes

17 items available

Concluding Discussion
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Concluding Discussion

Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about the 2009 Free Thinking ideas festival

Oct 2009
Night Waves
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Globe-trotting architect Dan Cruickshank on why we must restore lost historic buildings.

Jan 2010
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd at 2009's Free Thinking festival.

Nov 2009
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Philip Dodd meets psychotherapist Gwen Adshead. Contains some disturbing images.

Oct 2009
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Ken Livingstone asks an audience in Gateshead if the North-South divide still matters.

Oct 2009
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A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead for men.

Dec 2009
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Innovative music producer William Orbit presents his personal guide to the world of sound.

Oct 2009
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Rana Mitter hosts a public debate: Is The West Losing Its Nerve?

Oct 2009
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Julia Neuberger gives a lecture about ending prejudice against Britain's senior citizens.

Dec 2009
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A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and Wear.

Nov 2009
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Lionel Shriver talks to Anne McElvoy about her novel A Perfectly Good Family.

Feb 2010
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Lisa Jardine on how IVF is changing our ideas about the definition of a family.

Nov 2009
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Psychoanalyst Michael Brearley delivers a talk about the nature of leadership.

Nov 2009
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2009's Free Thinking festival opens with Tanya Byron's vision of the 21st-century family.

Oct 2009
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Highlights from Free Thinking 2009, including Sarah Hall on the sources of her writing.

Feb 2010
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Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.

Nov 2009
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Talk by Tom Shakespeare on how art can help us understand today's difficult moral issues.

Jan 2010