2012 Festival

Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson with the first lecture of Free Thinking 2012, on the topic of women leaders.

• 60 mins

2012 Festival

Live from Free Thinking

Matthew Sweet is joined by guests including Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers.

• 75 mins

2012 Festival

Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff gives a talk on enemies in politics at the 2012 Free Thinking Festival.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Is Social Mobility Overrated?

Anne McElvoy with a debate for Free Thinking 2012, asking 'Is social mobility overrated?'.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Islam and Christianity: The Essential Difference

From Free Thinking 2012, Tom Holland and Mona Siddiqui discuss Islam and Christianity.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Lee Hall

Philip Dodd presents a special conversation with Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Amos Oz

Amos Oz gives a talk on Israel and Palestine at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Rewriting World History

From the 2012 Free Thinking Festival, Rana Mitter chairs a debate about world history.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Vicky Featherstone

Vicky Featherstone gives a talk on the idea of a national theatre at Free Thinking 2012.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Immigration and the Challenge to Belonging

Philip Dodd chairs a debate on immigration at the 2012 Free Thinking festival.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Mark Pagel

At Free Thinking 2012, Mark Pagel gives a talk: 'evolution and humanity - what next?'.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Charlotte Blease

Charlotte Blease gives a talk questioning the relationship between doctors and patients.

• 15 mins

2012 Festival

Part 2

Adriana Sinclair gives a talk exploring whether Britain might face a colonial future.

• 15 mins

2012 Festival

Jonathan Healey

Jonathan Healey gives a talk questioning the value of lessons from history.

• 15 mins

2012 Festival

Emma Griffin

From Free Thinking 2012, Emma Griffin gives a talk on what makes a good mother today.

• 15 mins

2012 Festival

Timothy Secret

Timothy Secret gives a talk exploring how we react when looked at by animals.

• 15 mins

2012 Festival

Nandini Das

Nandini Das gives a talk on the 16th-century crime pamphlet craze at Free Thinking 2012.

• 15 mins

2012 Festival

Joshua Nall

Joshua Nall gives a talk on Mars and the Victorians at the 2012 Free Thinking Festival.

• 15 mins

2012 Festival

Sue-Ann Harding

Sue-Ann Harding gives a talk entitled 'expat or immigrant' at Free Thinking 2012.

• 15 mins

2012 Festival

Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith gives a talk on peanuts and the rise of food allergies at Free Thinking 2012

• 15 mins

2012 Festival

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel gives a talk arguing that sexuality is a choice at Free Thinking 2012.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Aliens: The Ultimate Them and Us

From the 2012 Free Thinking festival, Matthew Sweet chairs a debate on aliens.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Revolution and Democracy: The Arab Spring

Jeremy Bowen and Tarek Osman discuss the Arab Spring at the 2012 Free Thinking festival.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Ian Goldin

Ian Goldin gives a talk entitled Globalisation and the Future at Free Thinking 2012.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Colm Toibin

Irish writer Colm Toibin talks to Philip Dodd at the 2012 Free Thinking festival.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Lindsay Johns

From Free Thinking 2012, Lindsay Johns argues that we should stop listening to the young.

• 45 mins

2012 Festival

Philippa Gregory

Novelist Philippa Gregory talks to Rana Mitter at the 2012 Free Thinking festival.

• 45 mins

Peter Brook

Peter Brook 1925-2022: the theatre director in conversation with Matthew Sweet in 2013.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking in Summer 2013

York Festival of Ideas - Wars of the Roses

Rana Mitter examines the legacy of the War of the Roses at the 2013 York Festival of Ideas

• 45 mins

Free Thinking in Summer 2013

Philosophy Night

Rana Mitter chairs a debate from the Philosophy Night marathon at the Insitut Français.

• 45 mins