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Free Thinking

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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

Tim O'Reilly

Eleanor Barraclough

Hetta Howes

Debbie Kilbride

Free Thinking: Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

24/10/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0

Tim O'Reilly discusses algorithmic regulation and what 2.0 government involves with Anne McElvoy. Plus exhibitions at the British Library and Dulwich exploring crossover fiction.

Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0 and looks at crossover fiction by JK Rowling, Philip Pullman and Tove Jansson with young adult author Aisha Bushby and New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough reporting on exhibitions at the British Library and Dulwich.

Tove Jansson (1914-2001) runs at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London from October 25th - January 28th 2018 
Harry Potter: A History of Magic runs at the British Library from October 20th to Wednesday 28th February 2018 
Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust Vol 1: La Belle Sauvage is out now. He's also written Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling which are being read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. 
Tim O'Reilly has written What's the Future and Why it's Up to Us. 
Aisha Bushby will be talking at the Southbank Centre's Young Adult Literature Weekender on the 28th October and her story Marionette Girl is published in a new collection called A Change is Gonna Come.

Image details: DETAIL - A phoenix rising from the ashes in a 13th-century bestiary (c) British Library

Producer: Debbie Kilbride.

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