Free Thinking 2009

Free Thinking - David Miliband

Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd at 2009's Free Thinking festival.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Part 1

Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival.

• 20 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Part 2

Matthew Sweet hosts further conversation and debate about the 2009 Free Thinking festival.

• 55 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Sport or the Arts

Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Lisa Jardine

Lisa Jardine on how IVF is changing our ideas about the definition of a family.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Landmarks: Land of Three Rivers

A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and Wear.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Michael Brearley: Narcissism and Leadership

Psychoanalyst Michael Brearley delivers a talk about the nature of leadership.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Free Thinking - The Future of Men

A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead for men.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Julia Neuberger - Mind the Gap

Julia Neuberger gives a lecture about ending prejudice against Britain's senior citizens.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Dan Cruickshank: Building Memories

Globe-trotting architect Dan Cruickshank on why we must restore lost historic buildings.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Tom Shakespeare

Talk by Tom Shakespeare on how art can help us understand today's difficult moral issues.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Lionel Shriver/Ian McMillan

Lionel Shriver talks to Anne McElvoy about her novel A Perfectly Good Family.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2009

Sarah Hall/Hugh Pym/Speed Dating with a Thinker

Highlights from Free Thinking 2009, including Sarah Hall on the sources of her writing.

• 45 mins

Year of Science 2010

Chris and Uta Frith

Rana Mitter talks to Chris and Uta Frith - a couple who are both neuroscientists.

• 45 mins

Louise Bourgeois, Christopher Hitchens, Cultural Attitudes to Skin, The Late Middle Classes

Anne McElvoy talks to Christopher Hitchens and discusses sculptor Louise Bourgeois.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Is the Book Dead?

Philip Dodd is joined by an audience of authors and reader to ask - is the book dead?

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Universities

Philip Dodd debates the question of what we really want from universities and graduates.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Free Thinking - Jacqueline Wilson

Author Jacqueline Wilson in a lecture - Beyond the Fairytale: Happiness in the Real World.

• 60 mins

Free Thinking 2010

What Does Britain Do Best: Sport or the Arts?

A special debate as 5 live sports fans battle with a panel of Radio 3 arts lovers.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Matthew Sweet hosts a debate reflecting on the 2010 Free Thinking ideas festival.

• 30 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Philosopher Angie Hobbs on Heroes

Angie Hobbs debates today's idea of heroism in war, social justice, the arts and sport.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Comedy or Tragedy

A debate on which approach to life and art is more illuminating - comedy or tragedy.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Can the Government Make You Happy?

Philip Dodd hosts a debate asking the question 'can the Government make you happy?'.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

What Acting Can Teach You in Life

Actress Fiona Shaw joins a discussion asking 'what acting can teach you about life'.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Marriage

Writer Frank Cottrell Boyce discusses the subject of marriage. Does it need rescuing?

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Ben Franklin and Shopping

TV presenter Kevin McCloud gives a lecture about the importance of craftsmanship.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Violence - A New Perspective

Former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Blair on the part violence plays in human behaviour.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Do Possessions Make Us Happy?

Rana Mitter with Sarah Dunant and Sara Maitland ask - do possessions make us happy?

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

The Joys of Failure

Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce on the Joys of Failure at the Free Thinking festival.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking 2010

Has God Gone Global?

Philip Dodd chairs a debate at the Sage Gateshead asking Has God Gone Global?

• 45 mins