Original version

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

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Free Thinking

Discussion & Talk

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

BBC Radio 4

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.

Free Thinking: Discrimination.

Discrimination

Discrimination.

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Discrimination.

The lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Shahidha Bari to discuss how British justice fails women.

The lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Shahidha Bari to discuss how British justice fails women. And the theatre directors Jamie Lloyd and Lia Williams on the Pinter at the Pinter season.

Helena Kennedy on #MeToo and the message it sends that the British legal system needs to get its house in order. Plus power in Pinter's plays and rape in Chaucer. Shahidha Bari talks to theatre directors Jamie Lloyd and Lia Williams about language and the roles for women on stage in the Pinter at the Pinter Season, an event featuring all of Harold Pinter's short plays, performed together for the first time. And Professor Elizabeth Robertson has been researching references to rape in Chaucer's writing and attitudes towards consent in Medieval times. 

Helena Kennedy's book is called Eve was Shamed: how British Justice is Failing Women 
Pinter at the Pinter runs in London's West End until 23rd February 2019.
Elizabeth Robertson, Professor and Chair of English Language, University of Glasgow has written Chaucer, Chaucerian Consent: Women, Religion and Subjection in Late Medieval England 

You can hear a longer conversation with Elizabeth Robertson in our new podcast about academic research https://bbc.in/2yrTZU5 

Producer: Fiona McLean

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Free Thinking

Discrimination.

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3