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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.

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Free Thinking: Virginia Woolf Portraits, Richard Flanagan, Medical History, The Security Services in Fiction

Virginia Woolf Portraits, Richard Flanagan, Stella Rimington, Alan Judd

10/07/2014

Virginia Woolf Portraits, Richard Flanagan, Medical History, The Security Services in Fiction

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Virginia Woolf Portraits, Richard Flanagan, Medical History, The Security Services in Fiction

With Anne McElvoy. Virginia Woolf portraits, Richard Flanagan's new book and spy novels.

With Anne McElvoy. Including portraits of Virginia Woolf at the National Portrait Gallery, Richard Flanagan's new novel, the security services in fiction and medical history.

Curator Frances Spalding and Dr Alexandra Harris discuss what portaits of Virginia Woolf convey of her character as a new exhibition opens at the National Portrait Gallery.

Richard Flanagan's father was a Japanese POW on the "Death Railway". The Australian novelist's new book The Narrow Road to the Deep North was inspired by this.

New Generation Thinker Alun Withey looks back at medical history.

Stella Rimington, former director general of MI5 and diplomat Alan Judd discuss turning their experiences of the security services into fiction.

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