In an audience event held at The Sage Gateshead, Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddite movement, to mark its 200th anniversary. Show more

Juliet Gardiner presents an audience discussion from The Sage Gateshead in which neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore discusses dramatic changes in the teenage brain. Show more

In front of an audience at The Sage Gateshead, Rana Mitter chairs a talk entitled Reclaiming the Universe, in which landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art. Show more

Economist Aditya Chakrabortty examines the impact of economic change on society, in a talk given at The Sage Gateshead as part of the 2011 Free Thinking festival. Show more

At The Sage Gateshead, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches the 2011 Free Thinking festival with a lecture on how the internet will continue to radically change our world. Show more

Tom Service debates classical music's impact on the world with a panel of guests.

For 2011's Free Thinking festival, Radio 3 and Radio 5 live join forces in a live simulcast from The Sage Gateshead to debate the editorial choices behind news stories. Show more

Jonathan Keeble and Kim Gerard read literature inspired by change, with music performed by soprano Stephanie Corley and Northern Sinfonia. Recorded at the Free Thinking festival. Show more

Matthew Sweet broadcasts from the Free Thinking Festival 2011, with guests and an in-depth interview with one of the world's leading heart surgeons, Francis Wells. Show more

A live performance from the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead of a drama written especially for Free Thinking, set during the English riots of 2011. Show more

As part of BBC Radio 3's 2011 Free Thinking festival, Anne McElvoy is joined by Foreign Secretary William Hague, who discusses his views on Britain's changing place in the world. Show more

Television presenter Kevin Fong, who is a leading expert on space medicine, gives a talk at the 2011 Free Thinking Festival calling for a 'second space age'. Show more

Philip Dodd presents an audience discussion at Free Thinking 2011 in which writer and academic Germaine Greer gives a talk questioning the pursuit of freedom. Show more

Ian McMillan presents a special programme from The Sage Gateshead for the 2011 Free Thinking festival 2011. With Maximo Park, a poem about Change, David Almond and Kate Fox. Show more

Rev Dr Giles Fraser, the former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, gives a talk at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011 on the Crisis of Commitment in our society. Show more

Historian Linda Colley delivers a lecture entitled The Present and the Past of Change. She examines how we have dealt with periods of dramatic change in the past. Show more

Julian Savulescu, professor of ethics at Oxford University, makes the case for human enhancement and genetic selection at The Sage Gateshead for the 2011 Free Thinking festival. Show more

From The Sage Gateshead for Free Thinking 2011, Philip Dodd hosts a debate on an apparent obsession with change. Guests include film-maker Molly Dineen and the Rev Dr Giles Fraser. Show more

Anne McElvoy chairs a debate about the impact of a future energy crisis on our way of life, recorded in front of an audience as part of the 2011 BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking festival. Show more

Philip Dodd introduces an audience discussion given as part of the 2011 Free Thinking festival, in which psychotherapist Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change. Show more