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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: 2015 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay

Free Thinking: 2015 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay: Part 4: New Generation Thinkers: Nancy Cunard - The Rebellious Heiress

New Generation Thinkers: Nancy Cunard - The Rebellious Heiress

Part 4 Part 4: New Generation Thinkers: Nancy Cunard - The Rebellious Heiress

2015 Festival

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Sandeep Parmar on the tragic life of Nancy Cunard, scion of the famous shipping family.

Sandeep Parmar explores the life of Nancy Cunard of the famous shipping family. She was a poet and anti-fascist, yet was disinherited and seen as the black sheep of her family.

For nearly 200 years, the name Cunard has evoked glamorous images of sleek cruise ships and transatlantic sea travel. Yet the legacy of the Cunard family's black sheep, the disinherited granddaughter Nancy Cunard, is less well-known. 

Sandeep Parmar of the University of Liverpool explores the tragic life of this scion of a wealthy family who became a revolutionary poet, publisher, modernist muse, anti-fascist and anti-racism activist.

The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of an annual scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics at the start of their careers who can turn their research into fascinating broadcasts.

The Essay was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. If you want to hear Sandeep Parmar discussing her research you can download The Essay and conversation as an Arts and Ideas podcast. 

Producer: Torquil Macleod.

Free Thinking: 2015 Festival

The Free Thinking Essay

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Events from the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

Series of events from the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Free Thinking 2015

Series in which Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead for the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

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