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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Free Thinking: 2012 Festival: Free Thinking Essay

Free Thinking: 2012 Festival: Free Thinking Essay: Part 2

Part 2 2012 Festival

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Adriana Sinclair gives a talk exploring whether Britain might face a colonial future.

From Free Thinking 2012, New Generation Thinker Adriana Sinclair gives a talk exploring whether Britain might face a colonial future.

Adriana Sinclair, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the control ex-colonies increasingly exert over their former colonial powers, recorded at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2012.

Lecturer in International Relations at the University of East Anglia, Adriana Sinclair argues that as Asia rises and Europe fades, new patterns and forms of exploitation and domination will emerge that could turn the tables on the old world. 

The Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November. 

The New Generation Thinkers are winners of a talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.

Free Thinking: 2012 Festival

Free Thinking Essay

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Series of events from the 2012 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'them and us'

Series of events from the 2012 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'them and us': exploring whether the world is becoming a more divided place, and how we define ourselves in relation to others

Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Free Thinking 2012

Series in which Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at The Sage Gateshead for Free Thinking 2012

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