Free Thinking

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

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: Queer Histories

Queer Histories

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Queer Histories

How do we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures?

What's the value of assessing whether historical figures were trans or gay? How do you 'prove' that identity now? Shahidha Bari asks Morgan M Page, Jana Funke and Senthorun Raj.

Morgan M Page, Jana Funke and Senthorum Raj look at how we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures both real and fictional and what it means to have to "prove" your identity today in today's legal world. Shahidha Bari presents.  

Morgan M Page is a writer, performance + video artist, and trans historian whose podcast is called One From The Vaults
Jana Funke teaches Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter
Senthorum Raj teaches at Keele University School of Law.

In the Free Thinking archives you can find programmes  Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Sappho  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wn522 
Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xcx1f 
Censorship and Sex  Naomi Wolf on John Addington Symonds and Sarah Parker on Michael Field  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057k4 
HD and Bryher are discussed, alongside Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees in this episode Pioneering Women: academics and classics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dj0g 
Tom Smith explores the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00061m5 
Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b7r7 

Production team: Caitlin Benedict and Alex Mansfield

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

Queer Histories

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3