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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 3: Jonathan Healey

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2012 Festival

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Jonathan Healey gives a talk questioning the value of lessons from history.

For Free Thinking 2012, Oxford University historian and Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Jonathan Healey gives a talk questioning the value of lessons from history.

Oxford University historian Jonathan Healey, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk questioning the value of lessons from history. 

Healey claims that lessons drawn from the past and applied to our own world are meaningless, despite what we are told by best-selling historians and television documentaries. It is precisely because the past is so foreign that we are able to understand what is so unique about today. 

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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