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
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Concluding Discussion
Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about the 2009 Free Thinking ideas festival
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Globe-trotting architect Dan Cruickshank on why we must restore lost historic buildings.
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd at 2009's Free Thinking festival.
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Philip Dodd meets psychotherapist Gwen Adshead. Contains some disturbing images.
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Ken Livingstone asks an audience in Gateshead if the North-South divide still matters.
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A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead for men.
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Innovative music producer William Orbit presents his personal guide to the world of sound.
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Rana Mitter hosts a public debate: Is The West Losing Its Nerve?
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Julia Neuberger gives a lecture about ending prejudice against Britain's senior citizens.
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A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and Wear.
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Lionel Shriver talks to Anne McElvoy about her novel A Perfectly Good Family.
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Lisa Jardine on how IVF is changing our ideas about the definition of a family.
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Psychoanalyst Michael Brearley delivers a talk about the nature of leadership.
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2009's Free Thinking festival opens with Tanya Byron's vision of the 21st-century family.
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Highlights from Free Thinking 2009, including Sarah Hall on the sources of her writing.
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Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.
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Talk by Tom Shakespeare on how art can help us understand today's difficult moral issues.