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

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Free Thinking: 2014 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay

Free Thinking: 2014 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay: Part 2: Scold the Front Page

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2014 Festival

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Tom Charlton on what 17th-century ideas about censorship share with the Leveson report.

Tom Charlton explores 17th-century arguments over censorship and press freedom and what they share with Lord Leveson's report into press ethics.

Who censors what, how, and why? Is this a job for the government, or for journalists themselves?
Tom Charlton is conducting research at Dr Williams's Library at Queen Mary, University of London. As debates over media regulation continue to rage, he argues that both sides misunderstand and misrepresent the history of press freedoms in England. He argues that the execution of the printer John Twyn, in 1664, says much about the way censorship works.

Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead

Producer: Harry Parker.

Free Thinking: 2014 Festival

The 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.

Events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

Series of events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Free Thinking 2014

Series in which Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead for the 2014 Free Thinking festival of ideas. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

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