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Free Thinking - A Festival of Ideas, 23-25 October 2009

The Sage Gateshead

The BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival of Ideas took place at The Sage Gateshead over the weekend 23-25 October 2009 with speakers including Tanya Byron, David Miliband, Lionel Shriver, Dan Cruickshank and Ken Livingstone.

Even though the live events have finished, Free Thinking broadcasts continue on BBC Radio 3 into early 2010 in programmes including Night Waves, The Essay, The Verb, Words and Music and Drama on 3.

Most events will remain online to listen to for the long term. You can also catch up with what happened on the Radio 3 Blog, continue the discussions around Free Thinking on Twitter #r3thinking, watch videos from the festival on the Radio 3 YouTube channel and Winkball and see pictures from the festival on Flickr.

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Tanya Byron

Contributors

An A-Z of the 2009 Free Thinking contributors.

Young Ranters

Young Ranters

Listen online to the issues bugging the young ranters.

Free Thoughts

Free Thoughts

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Take away the festival

Take Away

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Free Thinking Archive

Archive

Listen to or watch over 100 Free Thinking events from 2006-8.

Speech and Drama on Radio 3

Speech and Drama on Radio 3

Including Night Waves

Events

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Free Thinking Festival

Listen to Speech and Drama on Radio 3

  1. 22 Nov 2009 13:00–14:00
    BBC Radio 3
    The Early Music Show
    Purcell Symphony Songs
    A concert of Purcell's little-known symphony songs given by Concordia at Wigmore Hall.
  2. 22 Nov 2009 17:00–18:30
    BBC Radio 3
    Discovering Music
    The English Viol Consort
    Catherine Bott, Laurence Dreyfus and Phantasm on the Golden Age of English viol music.
  3. 23 Nov 2009 12:00–13:00
    BBC Radio 3
    Composer of the Week
    Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925), Episode 1
    1/5. Donald Macleod investigates just how famous Moszkowski was.
  4. 23 Nov 2009 17:00–19:00
    BBC Radio 3
    In Tune
    Sean Rafferty
    Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.

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