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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.

Anne McElvoy

Ian Hislop

Craig Calhoun

Alinah Azadeh

Naomi Paxton

Jacqueline Smith

Free Thinking: Paul Foot Award, Valuing the Arts

Paul Foot Award, Craig Calhoun

24/02/2015

Paul Foot Award, Valuing the Arts

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Paul Foot Award, Valuing the Arts

Anne McElvoy with the 2014 Paul Foot Award winner and Craig Calhoun on valuing the arts.

Anne McElvoy explores how we value the arts with sociologist and director of the London School of Economics Dr Craig Calhoun. Plus the winner of the 2015 Paul Foot Award.

As this year's Paul Foot Awards are announced for campaigning and investigative journalism, Anne McElvoy reports from the ceremony and talks to this year's winner.

Also in the first of three interviews with opinion formers from non-arts organisations, Anne talks to the Director of the London School of Economics, the sociologist Dr Craig Calhoun about the things that inspired him to take up a career in the social sciences, what he believes his own discipline can contribute to creating a better society, where it could do better and how those arguments might be applied to the arts. Calhoun discusses his life-long appreciation of E P Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and African Art.
The artist Alinah Azideh joins Anne in the studio to talk about her latest project, two banners celebrating the 1965 Race Relations Act and the 1897 founding of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies now hanging in the Great Hall at the Palace of Westminster and commissioned by parliament as part of its on-going celebrations of the 800 years of Magna Carta. The Suffrage Banner uses words from an early feminist play which was uncovered by one of this year's New Generation Thinkers, the actress and academic, Naomi Paxton. They discuss the way in which creativity has been the life blood of social and political movements since time immemorial.

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