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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.

Rana Mitter

Catherine Pepinster

Tim Stanley

Richard McGregor

Hans van de Ven

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Fiona McLean

Free Thinking: Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett

12/10/2017

Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.

Richard McGregor, Hans Van de Ven and presenter Rana Mitter discuss relations between Japan, US and China. Plus Ronan Bennett on dramatising the Gunpowder Plot for TV.

The Gunpowder Plot in a new tv dramatisation by Ronan Bennett plus presenter Rana Mitter explores anti-Catholic prejudice in Britain today with Catherine Pepinster and Tim Stanley, and historians Richard McGregor and Hans van de Ven discuss relations between Japan, US and China. And the Icelandic poet and songwriter Sjón on hisrole in Poetry International as it celebrates its 50th anniversary since it was founded in 1967 by former poet laureate Ted Hughes. 


Richard McGregor is former Beijing bureau chief for The Financial Times and the author of Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century.
Hans van de Ven has written China at War: triumph and tragedy in the emergence of the new China 1937 - 1952. He is Professor of Modern Chinese History, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. 
'Gunpowder' a 3-part TV series developed by Ronan Bennett, Kit Harington and Daniel West will air on BBC TV 
Poetry International is on London's Southbank from Friday 13th-Sunday 15th October as part of the London Literature Festival.
Catherine Pepinster has written The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis. 


You can hear Ronan Bennett's Private Passions on BBC Radio 3 on November 5th. 

Producer: Fiona McLean.

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