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

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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.

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Edith Hall

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Anne McElvoy

Jacqueline Smith

Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: Success debated by Peter Frankopan, Edith Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah

Sound Frontiers: Success

28/09/2016

Sound Frontiers: Success debated by Peter Frankopan, Edith Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Sound Frontiers: Success debated by Peter Frankopan, Edith Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah

Anne McElvoy debates success, the subject for a Third Programme debate in 1967.

Anne McElvoy, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edith Hall and Peter Frankopan explore the idea of success in drama, literature and history and how that translates to the contemporary world.

Historian Peter Frankopan and Classicist, Edith Hall, join the author and drama practitioner Kwame Kwei-Armah in a Free Thinking session, chaired by Anne McElvoy, on the concept of success. Success was scrutinised in a documentary on the Third Programme in 1967. Personal or public - how do we imagine success in the contemporary world? Have our hopes for a successful society grown or diminished, is a sense of personal integrity as strong as it was? Archives from the Third Programme include a transcript from 5 June 1967 of a programme produced by Douglas Cleverdon in which Philip Toynbee, Sir Michael Redgrave, Malcolm Muggeridge and John Berger talk to host Philip O'Connor about the nature of success. Have our definitions changed at all ?

Peter Frankopan from Worcester College, Oxford is the author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Edith Hall's latest book is called Introducing The Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind 
Kwame Kwei-Armah, author, actor and Artistic Director of CENTERSTAGE Baltimore directs One Night in Miami by Kemp Power at London's Donmar Warehouse October 6th - December 3rd 2016.

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