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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.

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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 8: Joshua Nall

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Joshua Nall gives a talk on Mars and the Victorians at the 2012 Free Thinking Festival.

From The Sage Gateshead, historian and New Generation Thinker Joshua Nall, gives a talk on the Victorian obsession with the planet Mars for the 2012 Free Thinking festival.

Joshua Nall, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the Victorian obsession with the planet Mars at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.

With the recent success of NASA's Curiosity lander, Mars is firmly back on the agenda. But where did our fascination with the red planet start?

Cambridge University historian Joshua Nall returns to Mars, as it was seen a century ago, when science and literature buzzed with claims about inhabitants on the neighbouring planet. 

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

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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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