Free Thinking Podcast
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives - looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
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Free Thinking 2012 - Amos Oz
Mon 12 Nov 2012
Amos Oz, one of Israel's most influential thinkers, gives a talk on the Middle East of...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Timothy Secret
Fri 9 Nov 2012
Timothy Secret, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers , gives a talk during Free we...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Lee Hall
Thu 8 Nov 2012
An audience with Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, recorded at...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Emma Griffin
Thu 8 Nov 2012
Emma Griffin, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on what makes a 3...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Jonathan Healey
Wed 7 Nov 2012
Jonathan Healey, one of Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk questioning...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Islam and Christianity
Wed 7 Nov 2012
Theologian Mona Siddiqui and historian Tom Holland join Radio 3’s Free Thinking to...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Social Mobility
Tue 6 Nov 2012
Is Social Mobility Overrated? Anne McElvoy chairs a debate from the Radio 3 Free this...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Adriana Sinclair
Tue 6 Nov 2012
Adriana Sinclair, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the exert...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Charlotte Blease
Mon 5 Nov 2012
Charlotte Blease, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk that the and...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Michael Ignatieff
Mon 5 Nov 2012
On the eve of the US election, Michael Ignatieff gives a talk at Radio 3's Free on in...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Mary Robinson
Fri 2 Nov 2012
Mary Robinson delivers the opening lecture of the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival...
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Were the Luddites Right?
Thu 1 Dec 2011
Updated corrected audio: Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddites to mark their...
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Charles Jencks
Fri 25 Nov 2011
Landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art, in a talk entitled the...
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Thu 24 Nov 2011
Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain.
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Susie Orbach
Tue 22 Nov 2011
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change.
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The impact of a future energy crisis on our way of life
Fri 18 Nov 2011
How will our world change as traditional energy supplies shrink and climate change us...
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Aditya Chakrabortty
Fri 18 Nov 2011
Economist Aditya Chakrabortty examines the impact of economic change on society.
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Can We Stop the Mania for Change?
Thu 17 Nov 2011
Philip Dodd chairs a debate on the obsession with change, at the BBC Radio 3 Free 2011...
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Julian Savulescu - The Moral Obligation to Improve
Wed 16 Nov 2011
Julian Savulescu, Oxford Professor of Ethics, makes the case for human enhancement and...
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Linda Colley
Mon 14 Nov 2011
Leading historian Linda Colley gives a talk on how we have dealt with periods of in us...
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Germaine Greer
Fri 11 Nov 2011
Germaine Greer delivers a talk questioning the pursuit of freedom at the BBC Radio 3...
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Kevin Fong
Thu 10 Nov 2011
Kevin Fong, who presents BBC2's Horizon and is a leading expert on space medicine, a 3...
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The Foreign Secretary William Hague
Wed 9 Nov 2011
William Hague discusses the dramatic changes taking throughout the globe and Britain's...
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Rev Dr Giles Fraser
Tue 8 Nov 2011
Rev Dr Giles Fraser, the former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, gives a talk...
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
Mon 7 Nov 2011
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival...
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Francis Wells
Mon 7 Nov 2011
One of the world's top heart surgeons, Francis Wells, discusses the future of the his...
Discussions and talks from the Free Thinking Festival 2019
Angry politics, what we can’t say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV
Click to listen to discussions, talks and music as the Free Thinking Festival 2019 Gets Emotional
Angry politics, what we can’t say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV
CLICK to LISTEN & SEE programmes from the Free Thinking Festival 2018: The One & the Many
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Free Thinking Festival 2017: The Speed of Life
