Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking Festival: Education Slow and Fast
Tony Sewell and Mike Grenier on the challenges of education in the 21st century.
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Free Thinking Festival: Doing Time/Confinement
Terry Waite, Erwin James and Cleo Van Velsen on the experience of isolation.
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Free Thinking Festival: Burning the Facts
Which historical 'facts' should be burned on the fire? How do you comb ancient and for...
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Free Thinking Festival: Antarctica
A hundred years ago, Ernest Shackleton set out on his Trans-Antarctic expedition which...
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Free Thinking Festival 2014: You Must See This
Matthew Sweet explores the way digital media have transformed our cultural tastes with...
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Free Thinking Festival 2014: Right Thinking People
David Willetts MP and the writer and philosopher Roger Scruton discuss the best way to...
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Free Thinking Festival 2014: Knowing Your Enemy
Anne McElvoy chairs a discussion about conciliation in an age of uprisings recorded in...
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Free Thinking Festival 鈥� Landmark: Angela Carter
Joanna Kavenna, Natasha Pulley, Susannah Clapp and Christopher Frayling on Angela Carter
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Free Thinking Festival - Work Available: No Humans Need Apply
Paul Mason, Lucy Armstrong and Richard and Daniel Susskind debate the future of work
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Free Thinking Festival - The Rules Of Good Science
Jim al-Khalili, Carlos Frenk, Katy Price and Tom Shakespeare debate scientific discovery
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Free Thinking Festival - The Family Is Dead! Long Live the Family!
Anne Fine, Tobias Jones, Tom Shakespeare and Professor Sarah Cunningham Burley debate.
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Free Thinking Festival - Stage Directions
A discussion of the actor/director relationship and are there rules for good theatre?
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Free Thinking Festival - Rule Breakers or Rule Makers?
Simon Heffer, Peter Tatchell and Joyce Quin in a Free Thinking Festival debate.
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Free Thinking Festival - Putting Competition to the Test
Margaret Heffernan, Matthew Syed, Cath Bishop and Christopher Frayling explore success.
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Free Thinking Festival - Old Ways, New Directions.
"Tweeting" shepherd James Rebanks and Professor Veronica Strang on traditional thinking.
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Free Thinking Festival - Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong, one of the world's leading thinkers about religion, gives the Free in...
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Free Thinking Festival - In Conversation With Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins explores religion, culture and science talking to Philip Dodd.
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Free Thinking Festival - From Flat Caps
Anne McElvoy explores whether it is worth getting hot under the collar about blue with...
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Free Thinking Festival - Free Information
The Cost of Free Information. Against a backdrop of perceived excess of intellectual a...
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Free Thinking Festival - Fear or Wonder
Naomi Alderman, Roger Luckhurst and BALTIC curator Alessandro Vincentelli join Matthew...
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Free Thinking Festival - Elif Shafak
Turkey's best selling female writer, Elif Shafak, talks to Anne McElvoy about and as...
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Free Thinking Festival - Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's finest writers, whose books explore issues such as and...
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Free Thinking Festival - Characters
Knowing Your Characters. Matthew Sweet talks to playwright David Greig and actor about...
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Free Thinking Festival - Breathalysing Britain: Free Spirits or a Drain on Society?
David Yelland, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Dr Sally Marlow and Prof Barry Smith on alcohol
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Free Thinking Festival - Breaking News - Telling Stories in Fact and Fiction
Bim Adewunmi John Yorke Emily Woof and Allan Little join Matthew Sweet at Sage Gateshead
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Free Thinking Festival - Animals
Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other. Rana Mitter talks to the of at...
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Free Thinking Essay:Art for Health's Sake
Daisy Fancourt's research shows the arts can improve health so should we prescribe them?
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Free Thinking Essay: When Shakespeare Travelled With Me
Islam Issa on arguments about Shakespeare in 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop in the 21st century
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Free Thinking Essay: What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?
Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, on AI and Douglas Adams.
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Free Thinking Essay: Welling Up: Women & Water in the Middle Ages
Hetta Howes looks at male fears + why Margery Kempe was criticised for crying & bleeding.
