Richard Hakluyt, Man Booker Prize, Chickens in the Anthropocene, Shirley Jackson
Includes Richard Hakluyt's legacy, chickens and the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
Free Thinking
Radio 3's ideas festival, with interviews, talks, debates, drama and live performance. With contributions from leading thinkers, artists, scientists and writers.
On demand
All episodes available on BBC iPlayer Radio (470 total)
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Mind and Body/Human and Animal: Free Thinking explores the links and differences
Peter Singer, Steve Silberman, Siobhan Davies, Tiffany Watt Smith, “Goat man”
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New Generation Thinkers 2016: Hear their ideas
From aubergines to frostbite via finger-counting.
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Enoch Powell, US Supreme Court, War and Art
With a play about Enoch Powell, the US Supreme Court and the visual language of war.
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Landmarks
Key films, books, TV, plays, art: 1001 Nights – 2001 A Space Odyssey, Jane Austen - Jaws
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Kevin Brownlow
Kevin Brownlow talks to Matthew Sweet about documenting and restoring silent film classics
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Visual Arts
Dorothy Bohm, Edward Burtynsky, Sean Scully, Dada, Elizabeth Price, Edmund de Waal
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Free Thinking in Translation
Writing from around the world: fact, fiction, key authors, classics & contemporary voices
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Belonging, Home, Borders & National Identity
Discussions/interviews: Slavoj Zizek, Xinran, Ivan Klima, Claudia Rankine, Pankaj Mishra
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The Getting of Knowledge
Will Hutton, Lucy O’Brien, Richard Sennett on how topics are taught + campus free speech?
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Free Thinking explores religious belief
Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson
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Utopia 500 years on.
Programmes exploring Utopia 500 years after Thomas More published his book.
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New Generation Thinkers 2015
Danielle Thom; Sandeep Parmar; Peter Mackay; Sam Goodman; Clare Walker; Kylie Murray
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New Generation Thinkers 2015: Turning big ideas into short films
Watch the 2015 cohort in a series of enlightening short films.
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New Generation Thinkers 2014 - Turning Ideas Into Television
Watch films made by 2014 group of New Generation Thinkers, working with BBC Arts
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Night Waves archive
Listen to past editions from the extensive Night Waves archive.
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Germany
Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher, Haydn Gwynne & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy
Five fantastic medieval beasts and where to find them
What do mythical human-animal hybrids tells us about the human condition?
The Arts and Ideas Podcast
You can download all the past episodes of Radio 3's Free Thinking
We're back at Sage Gateshead for the Free Thinking Festival on 17-19 March 2017
Listen back to programmes on 'Tearing up the Rule Book' from our last festival
