Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking: An interview with Haemin Sunim
Haemin Sunim, the Buddhist meditation teacher, on calm in a fast-paced 21st century world
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Free Thinking: American Power? Suzan-Lori Parks. Gary Younge. Abstract Expressionism.
Pulitzer prize winning American dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks. William Boyd on American art.
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Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model
Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.
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Free Thinking: 'Play' in urban design, Gillian Allnutt
Philip Dodd considers the importance of 'play' in the way our city centres are designed.
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Free Thinking: Robots, and an Icelandic Dracula
Matthew Sweet meets Eric the UK's first robot, built in 1928 now at the Science Museum.
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Free Thinking: Being Human: What the Archives Reveal
Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetery and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.
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Free Thinking, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radiophonic Workshop
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radiophonic workshop,opened in 1958 with an aim to experiment and produce for...
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Free Thinking- William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.
South Africa and art with William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes .
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Free Thinking Landmark: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Merlin Holland, Will Self and Fiona Shaw join Matthew Sweet to discuss Wilde's novel
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Free Thinking Landmark - The Tin Drum
Anne McElvoy is joined by the German novelist Eugen Ruge, British author Lawrence the...
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Free Thinking Landmark - 1001 Nights
It's three hundred years since the death of Antoine Galland, a French orientalist and...
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Free Thinking in the Summer - Hay
Philip Dodd discusses the Problem with Love with behavioural scientist Dylan Evans, AL...
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Free Thinking in the Summer - Derry-Londonderry
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas continues its summer of activity...
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Free Thinking in the Summer - Chalke
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas continues its summer of activity...
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Free Thinking in the Summer
Rana Mitter chairs a debate from the York Festival of Ideas on whether we can afford...
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Free Thinking in the Summer
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas hits the road this summer as it...
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Free Thinking in the Summer
Rana Mitter chairs a Free Thinking debate from the annual 12-hour My Night With at the...
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Free Thinking Festival: Writing Life
Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris explore time and place in modern Britain.
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Free Thinking Festival: Time, Space and Science
Carlos Frenk, Eugenia Cheng, Jim Al-Khalili and Louisa Preston debate time and space.
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Free Thinking Festival: The Time of Your Life
Edwina Currie, Miranda Sawyer and Lola Okolosie explore the different times of our lives.
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Free Thinking Festival: The Speed of Revolution
Bettany Hughes, Richard J Evans and John Hall join Philip Dodd and an audience at Sage
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Free Thinking Festival: The Never-Ending Workday
Sathnam Sanghera, Judy Wajcman, Griselda Togobo and Robert Colvile on time and working.
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Free Thinking Festival: The Essay
Sophie Coulombeau on the origins of the custom for women to take their husband's name.
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Free Thinking Festival: Quick Reactions
Damon Hill,Tanni Grey-Thompson and Lincoln Jopp on pressured decision-making at top speed
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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.
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Free Thinking Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2017
The 2017 New Generation Thinkers make their first public appearance together.
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Free Thinking Festival: How Short is a Short Story?
George Saunders, Kirsty Logan, Jenn Ashworth and Paul McVeigh on writing short fiction.
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Free Thinking Festival: Harriet Harman - Politics Fast and Slow
Labour MP Harriet Harman on sustaining her career in a fast-changing political world.
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Free Thinking Festival: Happy Talk
How much self-knowledge do you need to be happy – and what are the limits to what to...
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Free Thinking Festival: Faster, Faster, Faster?
Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher debate the speed of life.