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  1. Free Thinking 2013 - The Countryside

    Are our policy makers too urban in their outlook? Have we lost touch with nature? On...

  2. Free Thinking 2013 - Sugata Mitra

    Professor Sugata Mitra's pioneering experiments gave children in India access to to...

  3. Free Thinking 2013 - Science and Sensibility

    Today many scientists are engaged in exploring the interaction between logical and of...

  4. Free Thinking 2013 - Sarah Peverley

    A 15th-century English monarch was appointed by God and had absolute supremacy but how...

  5. Free Thinking 2013 - Power to the People

    Social media allows us to make our views known quickly but where does this public and...

  6. Free Thinking 2013 - Penny Woolcock

    Penny Woolcock talks to Samira Ahmed about directing a film version of John Adams's of...

  7. Free Thinking 2013 - Language Wars

    Defenders of traditional English language and grammar often present themselves as but...

  8. Free Thinking 2013 - How on Earth

    In a world of diminishing natural resources, global economic crisis and constant on we...

  9. Free Thinking 2013 - False Conception

    Annie Besant promoted contraceptive advice to the Victorian working classes.

  10. Free Thinking 2013 - Ecstatic

    The audience at a rock concert adoring the star; a Pentecostalist congregation God; an...

  11. Free Thinking 2013 - Cutting Tradition

    What do recent debates among medical ethicists and lawyers over male infant reveal the...

  12. Free Thinking 2013 - Controlling Moods and Minds

    What is the neuroscience of depression, how does it affect decision-making, and what a...

  13. Free Thinking 2013 - Boneless, Bloodaxe and Hairy Breeches: What Did the Vikings Ever Do f

    When Lindisfarne monastery was attacked in 793AD the monk Alcuin described the church...

  14. Free Thinking 2013 - Audiences

    In a bid to reach new audiences, theatre is increasingly moving off the stage and the...

  15. Free Thinking 2013 - Are We at a Tipping Point? Controlling Infection and Combatting Disea

    Increasing resistance to antibiotics is a threat to Britain which could be as as...

  16. Free Thinking 2013 - Alice Hall

    Blogs, YouTube, Facebook and phone apps have changed the way we share our lives, to an...

  17. Free Thinking 2012 - Vicky Featherstone

    As Scotland heads towards a referendum on independence, Vicky Featherstone discusses a...

  18. Free Thinking 2012 - Timothy Secret

    Timothy Secret, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers , gives a talk during Free we...

  19. Free Thinking 2012 - Sue-Ann Harding

    Sue-Ann Harding, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk in which she...

  20. Free Thinking 2012 - Social Mobility

    Is Social Mobility Overrated? Anne McElvoy chairs a debate from the Radio 3 Free this...

  21. Free Thinking 2012 - Rewriting World History

    Does World History still mean Western History, or do we need a radical new of the To...

  22. Free Thinking 2012 - Revolution and Democracy

    What kind of societies will the Arab Spring give birth to? Democratic, Capitalist, or...

  23. Free Thinking 2012 - Nandini Das

    Nandini Das, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the 16th craze...

  24. Free Thinking 2012 - Michael Ignatieff

    On the eve of the US election, Michael Ignatieff gives a talk at Radio 3's Free on in...

  25. Free Thinking 2012 - Matthew Smith

    Matthew Smith, one of Radio 3鈥檚 New Generation Thinkers, explores why the simple has...

  26. Free Thinking 2012 - Mary Robinson

    Mary Robinson delivers the opening lecture of the 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival...

  27. Free Thinking 2012 - Martin Goodman

    Martin Goodman, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the perils...

  28. Free Thinking 2012 - Mark Pagel

    Why have humans evolved to speak so many incomprehensible languages? Why do we work by...

  29. Free Thinking 2012 - Lindsay Johns

    Columnist and youth worker Lindsay Johns argues that we should stop listening to the a...

  30. Free Thinking 2012 - Lee Hall

    An audience with Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, recorded at...

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