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2/3. Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with theologian and academic Prof John Hull.

3/5. Donald Macleod speaks to John Rutter about his musical love affair with America.

Joan Bakewell discusses belief with novelist, critic and cultural historian Marina Warner.

2/5. John Rutter tells Donald Macleod about his affection for his home town of Cambridge.

1/3. Joan Bakewell discusses belief with historian, writer and broadcaster David Starkey.

1/5. Donald Macleod talks to John Rutter about the influence of his childhood on his music.

Cultural historian Richard Weight explores how we decide what is tasty.

Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic world.

Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert featuring the ensemble La Fenice.

Tom Service travels across the English Midlands taking a snapshot of music making.

5/5. Suzanne Aspden on Handel's uncanny ability to absorb musical and cultural influences.

With Ian McMillan. Featuring new writing from award-winning comedian Matthew Holness.

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With composer Howard Goodall and the Vienna Piano Trio.

5/5. Donald Macleod considers some of the radiant music from Spohr's last years.

4/5. Derek Alsop explores ways in which Handel related his music to the texts he was setting.

4/4. Rana Mitter discusses Moliere's The Misanthrope and re-assesses Jean-Paul Sartre.

With Sean Rafferty. La boheme at the Royal Opera House and pianist Garrick Ohlsson.

4/5. Donald Macleod considers how Spohr laid the musical foundations for other composers.

Julia Neuberger gives a lecture about ending prejudice against Britain's senior citizens.

A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead for men.

Psychoanalyst Michael Brearley delivers a talk about the nature of leadership.

A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and Wear.

Lisa Jardine on how IVF is changing our ideas about the definition of a family.

Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd at 2009's Free Thinking festival.

5/5. Why the medieval monk the Venerable Bede is the great Free Thinker of the North East.

4/5. Poet Sean O'Brien charts the growth of Newcastle's Literary and Philosophical Society.

Rana Mitter hosts a public debate: Is The West Losing Its Nerve?

3/5. Henrietta Heald on the achievements of inventor and industrialist William Armstrong.

Innovative music producer William Orbit presents his personal guide to the world of sound.

2/5. Kitty Fitzgerald on the life of Gertrude Bell, author of the 1921 map of modern Iraq.

Philip Dodd meets psychotherapist Gwen Adshead. Contains some disturbing images.

1/5. Graeme Rigby discusses T Dan Smith, former leader of Newcastle City Council.

Ken Livingstone asks an audience in Gateshead if the North-South divide still matters.

2/2. Matthew Sweet hosts further conversation and debate about the 2009 Free Thinking festival.

1/2. Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival.

2009's Free Thinking festival opens with Tanya Byron's vision of the 21st-century family.