Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Kilts, Celts and Clearances in World War One
Peter Mackay on what kilt wearing meant for some soldiers fighting World War One
The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Nancy Cunard: The Rebellious Heiress
Sandeep Parmar on the life of the anti racist campaigner, modernist muse and heiress
Free Thinking Festival - Putting Competition to the Test
Margaret Heffernan, Matthew Syed, Cath Bishop and Christopher Frayling explore success.
The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Women on Their Own: Widows in Britain, Now and Then
Nadine Muller on the status of the widow in fact and fiction 鈥�
Free Thinking Festival - In Conversation With Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins explores religion, culture and science talking to Philip Dodd.
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
The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Politician and Pioneer: Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh
Clare Walker Gore on what a C19th MP without hands and feet tells us about stereotypes.
The Free Thinking Festival Essay - The Moor of Florence A Medici Mystery
Catherine Fletcher on claims that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race
Free Thinking Festival - Rule Breakers or Rule Makers?
Simon Heffer, Peter Tatchell and Joyce Quin in a Free Thinking Festival debate.
The Free Thinking Festival Lecture: Claudia Rankine
Prize-winning poet Claudia Rankine explores language and racism past and present.
