Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Free Thinking

Discussion & Talk

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

BBC Radio 4

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.

Anne McElvoy

Sally Morgan

Tim Montgomerie

Bidisha

Rebecca Mead

Georg Baselitz

Natalie Steed

Free Thinking: Jane Eyre versus Anne of Green Gables, Parent Power, Georg Baselitz, Flooding in Literature

Parent Power, Literary Role Models, Georg Baselitz, Flooding in Literature

13/02/2014

Jane Eyre versus Anne of Green Gables, Parent Power, Georg Baselitz, Flooding in Literature

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Jane Eyre versus Anne of Green Gables, Parent Power, Georg Baselitz, Flooding in Literature

Anne McElvoy discusses parent power, literary heroines, artist Georg Baselitz and floods.

Presented by Anne McElvoy. With a debate on 'parent power', positive female role models in literarature, artist Georg Baselitz on his career and literary depictions of flooding.

Ed Miliband's speech earlier this week said parents should have more power to oust head teachers. The outgoing Ofsted chair Baroness Sally Morgan and Tim Montgomerie, Editor of the Times comment section debate parent power with Anne McElvoy.


Jane Eyre has been adapted for a stage production at Bristol Old Vic. Which literary heroines provide good role models? We hear from writers Bidisha and Rebecca Mead, whose new book is called The Road to Middlemarch.

German artist Georg Baselitz discusses his artistic career as his work goes on show in two London Galleries.

And literary depictions of flooding. What books you might want to avoid reading if you are faced with rising water levels.


Producer: Natalie Steed.

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.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Free Thinking

Jane Eyre versus Anne of Green Gables, Parent Power, Georg Baselitz, Flooding in Literature

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3