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25 – 27 Oct 2013, Sage Gateshead
Radio 3's Free Thinking 2013
2014 Festival: The limits of knowledge
Sage Gateshead Friday 31 October to Sunday 2 November 2014. Find out about all of the events.
Teaching the Teachers: The Future of Education
With Professor Sugata Mitra winner of the 2013 TED prize.
Whose Strife is it Anyway?
Are stories about poverty a motivating force?
What's Eating You?
Lionel Shriver and Dr Val Curtis discuss body image.
Why are Maps Still So Powerful?
Can a map reveal too much?
Are Audiences Killing Culture?
Are the arts leading or following public taste?
Who's Got Hold of Children's Imaginations?
With teen author Patrick Ness.
Controlling the Countryside
Can the pressure to preserve traditional customs be balanced against advances in farming?
Controlling Moods and Minds: Depression and Smart Drugs
What are the ethics of smart drugs?
How On Earth Can We Cope with Less?
How does not having enough shape the way we think?
Power to the People - What Choices do We Have?
With Charles Falconer, David Skelton and David Aaronovitch.
Science Fiction and Surveillance
The glass houses of Zamyatin's 'We'
Self control - key to a long life
Sir Michael Marmot delivers The Free Thinking Lecture.
Highlights
13 Terrifying Things We Learnt at Free Thinking
(and the debates they came from)
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45:00
Penny Woolcock
Director Penny Woolcock talks to Samira Ahmed about working in opera and film.
Nov '13
BBC Radio 3
45:00
Whose Strife Is It Anyway?
Who has the right to depict the experiences of the powerless? Rana Mitter chairs a debate.
Nov '13
BBC Radio 3
45:00
What's Eating You?
Authors Lionel Shriver and Val Curtis ask if we are too obsessed with food and body image.
Nov '13
BBC Radio 3
45:00
Are Audiences Killing Culture?
Matthew Sweet presents a debate asking if the arts are leading or following public taste.
Nov '13
BBC Radio 3