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Free Thinking Episodes

  1. Free Thinking in the Summer

    BBC Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas hits the road this summer as it...

  2. Free Thinking in the Summer

    Rana Mitter chairs a Free Thinking debate from the annual 12-hour My Night With at the...

  3. Free Thinking Festival: Writing Life

    Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris explore time and place in modern Britain.

  4. Free Thinking Festival: Time, Space and Science

    Carlos Frenk, Eugenia Cheng, Jim Al-Khalili and Louisa Preston debate time and space.

  5. Free Thinking Festival: The Time of Your Life

    Edwina Currie, Miranda Sawyer and Lola Okolosie explore the different times of our lives.

  6. Free Thinking Festival: The Speed of Revolution

    Bettany Hughes, Richard J Evans and John Hall join Philip Dodd and an audience at Sage

  7. Free Thinking Festival: The Never-Ending Workday

    Sathnam Sanghera, Judy Wajcman, Griselda Togobo and Robert Colvile on time and working.

  8. Free Thinking Festival: The Essay

    Sophie Coulombeau on the origins of the custom for women to take their husband's name.

  9. Free Thinking Festival: Quick Reactions

    Damon Hill,Tanni Grey-Thompson and Lincoln Jopp on pressured decision-making at top speed

  10. Free Thinking Festival: Northern Lights: Joanne Harris on the Norse god Loki

    Joanne Harris and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough discuss the god Loki and Norse beliefs.

  11. Free Thinking Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2017

    The 2017 New Generation Thinkers make their first public appearance together.

  12. Free Thinking Festival: How Short is a Short Story?

    George Saunders, Kirsty Logan, Jenn Ashworth and Paul McVeigh on writing short fiction.

  13. Free Thinking Festival: Harriet Harman - Politics Fast and Slow

    Labour MP Harriet Harman on sustaining her career in a fast-changing political world.

  14. Free Thinking Festival: Happy Talk

    How much self-knowledge do you need to be happy – and what are the limits to what to...

  15. Free Thinking Festival: Faster, Faster, Faster?

    Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher debate the speed of life.

  16. Free Thinking Festival: Education Slow and Fast

    Tony Sewell and Mike Grenier on the challenges of education in the 21st century.

  17. Free Thinking Festival: Doing Time/Confinement

    Terry Waite, Erwin James and Cleo Van Velsen on the experience of isolation.

  18. Free Thinking Festival: Burning the Facts

    Which historical 'facts' should be burned on the fire? How do you comb ancient and for...

  19. Free Thinking Festival: Antarctica

    A hundred years ago, Ernest Shackleton set out on his Trans-Antarctic expedition which...

  20. Free Thinking Festival 2014: You Must See This

    Matthew Sweet explores the way digital media have transformed our cultural tastes with...

  21. Free Thinking Festival 2014: Right Thinking People

    David Willetts MP and the writer and philosopher Roger Scruton discuss the best way to...

  22. Free Thinking Festival 2014: Knowing Your Enemy

    Anne McElvoy chairs a discussion about conciliation in an age of uprisings recorded in...

  23. Free Thinking Festival – Landmark: Angela Carter

    Joanna Kavenna, Natasha Pulley, Susannah Clapp and Christopher Frayling on Angela Carter

  24. Free Thinking Festival - Work Available: No Humans Need Apply

    Paul Mason, Lucy Armstrong and Richard and Daniel Susskind debate the future of work

  25. Free Thinking Festival - The Rules Of Good Science

    Jim al-Khalili, Carlos Frenk, Katy Price and Tom Shakespeare debate scientific discovery

  26. Free Thinking Festival - The Family Is Dead! Long Live the Family!

    Anne Fine, Tobias Jones, Tom Shakespeare and Professor Sarah Cunningham Burley debate.

  27. Free Thinking Festival - Stage Directions

    A discussion of the actor/director relationship and are there rules for good theatre?

  28. Free Thinking Festival - Rule Breakers or Rule Makers?

    Simon Heffer, Peter Tatchell and Joyce Quin in a Free Thinking Festival debate.

  29. Free Thinking Festival - Putting Competition to the Test

    Margaret Heffernan, Matthew Syed, Cath Bishop and Christopher Frayling explore success.

  30. Free Thinking Festival - Old Ways, New Directions.

    "Tweeting" shepherd James Rebanks and Professor Veronica Strang on traditional thinking.

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