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Louise Fryer presents the BBC SSO in music by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth and Glanert.
Radio 3's festival of ideas, featuring interviews, talks, public debates, drama and live performance. With contributions from today's leading thinkers, artists, scientists and writers
Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.
First broadcast: 05 Nov 2009
Highlights from Free Thinking 2009, including Sarah Hall on the sources of her writing.
First broadcast: 25 Feb 2010
Lionel Shriver talks to Anne McElvoy about her novel A Perfectly Good Family.
First broadcast: 18 Feb 2010
Talk by Tom Shakespeare on how art can help us understand today's difficult moral issues.
First broadcast: 14 Jan 2010
Globe-trotting architect Dan Cruickshank on why we must restore lost historic buildings.
First broadcast: 04 Jan 2010
Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.
Thu 22 Apr 2010 21:15 BBC Radio 3
Visit the Free Thinking website for details of this year's festival and archive of previous years.
Free Thinking Festival
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