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13:00 - 14:00

Live from Wigmore Hall, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio perform Previn and Brahms.

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

The Sage Gateshead

 

Latest - read news about Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2010.

 

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

 

Listen online to programmes from Free Thinking 2009

audience

Broadcasts and Listen online

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

Listen & download

Audience

Have your Say

Via the Radio 3 Blog or on Twitter at #r3thinking

Take away the festival

Take Away

Via the Arts and Ideas Podcast or sign-up for the Newsletter

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

All scheduled events

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Free Thinking Festival

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    Night Waves
    20/05/2013
    Lee Smolin talks to Samira Ahmed about the way that the laws of physics change over time.
  2. 20 May 2013 22:45–23:00
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    The Essay
    Wagner's Philosophers, Wagner and German Idealism
    1/5. Roger Scruton explores the philosophical background that influenced the young Wagner.
  3. 21 May 2013 22:00–22:45
    BBC Radio 3
    Night Waves
    21/05/2013
    Matthew Sweet talks to American novelist and short story writer James Salter.
  4. 21 May 2013 22:45–23:00
    BBC Radio 3
    The Essay
    Wagner's Philosophers, Wagner and the Philosophy of Revolution
    2/5. AC Grayling focuses on the crucial years before and after the Dresden uprising of 1849.

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