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Free Thinking Festival: Writing Life
Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris explore time and place in modern Britain.

Free Thinking at Uproot Festival
Author David Mark and poet Adelle Stripe join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Hull Truck.

Free Thinking: An interview with Haemin Sunim
Haemin Sunim, the Buddhist meditation teacher, on calm in a fast-paced 21st century world

Free Thinking Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2017
The 2017 New Generation Thinkers make their first public appearance together.

Free Thinking Festival: Education Slow and Fast
Tony Sewell and Mike Grenier on the challenges of education in the 21st century.

Free Thinking Essay: Killing Time in Imperial Japan
Christopher Harding explores the Tokyo of a century ago when 'time' was hotly contested.

Free Thinking Festival: The Time of Your Life
Edwina Currie, Miranda Sawyer and Lola Okolosie explore the different times of our lives.

The Essay - Creating Modern India
Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.

Free Thinking Essay: England's First European
John Gallagher marks the 400th anniversary of Fynes Moryson's great travel book.

Free Thinking Festival: The Never-Ending Workday
Sathnam Sanghera, Judy Wajcman, Griselda Togobo and Robert Colvile on time and working.