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Free Thinking Festival

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales leads a line-up of prominent thinkers at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. With Giles Fraser, Germaine Greer, William Hague, Susie Orbach, David Almond, Maximo Park, Margaret Drabble, Jack Thorne, Linda Colley, Charles Jencks, BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, The Verb, Music Matters, Words and Music and many more events.

Now in its sixth year, BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival is a platform for today's innovative thinkers, who examine the world of ideas through talks, interviews, debates, original drama and performance.

The Free Thinking Festival, which took place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November, is broadcast on BBC Radio 3 from 4 November for three weeks

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2011 Charles Jencks

A talk in which landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art.

Thu 24 Nov 2011 22:00 BBC Radio 3

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  • Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales: The Free Thinking Opening Lecture

    Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales: The Free Thinking Opening Lecture

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who has created one of the most referenced sources of knowledge on the planet, launches the 2011 BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival with his vision on how the internet will keep changing the world.

    This event took place at The Sage Gateshead on 4 November.

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  • Foreign Secretary William Hague

    Foreign Secretary William Hague

    The Foreign Secretary William Hague, MP for Richmond in Yorkshire, discusses his political philosophy, the dramatic changes taking place throughout the globe, and Britain's role in this transforming world order. Presented by Anne McElvoy.

    This event took place at The Sage Gateshead on 5 November. Broadcast on Tuesday 8 November at 10pm.

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  • Germaine Greer

    Germaine Greer

    Inspired by the Janis Joplin lyric "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose", leading intellectual Germaine Greer questions the pursuit of freedom.
    Presented by Philip Dodd.

    Broadcast on Thursday 10 November at 10pm.

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  • 2011 Free Thinking Festival Brochure

    2011 Free Thinking Festival Brochure

    2011 Free Thinking brochure with broadcast dates

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