Matthew Sweet presents a lecture in which author Patrick Ness and psychologist Professor Charles Fernyhough discuss the way children develop language, attachments and memories. Show more
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Rana Mitter presents a discussion asking if maps can reveal too much and how they direct our thinking. With Ordnance Survey head Dr Vanessa Lawrence and Professor Jerry Brotton. Show more
From Sage Gateshead, Matthew Sweet with a debate asking if the arts are leading or following public taste. With Godfrey Worsdale, Sarah Kent, Wolfgang Weileder and Helen Marriage. Show more
Samira Ahmed presents a discussion asking what is the place of food and body image in contemporary culture. With a panel including author Lionel Shriver and Dr Val Curtis. Show more
Are stories about tragedy and poverty a motivating force for change or do they reinforce stereotypes? Rana Mitters chairs a debate with authors Amit Chaudhuri and Gaiutra Bahadur. Show more
Penny Woolcock talks to Samira Ahmed about directing a film of John Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer and negotiating and documenting a truce between gangs in One Mile Away. Show more
From Sage Gateshead, the opening lecture from Free Thinking 2013: renowned medical researcher Professor Michael Marmot asks 'is self-control the key to a long life?'. Show more
Anne McElvoy presents a lecture in which England's chief medical officer, Professor Sally Davies, discusses medical advances and the dangers posed by antibiotic resistance. Show more
Poet Sean O'Brien, columnist David Aaronovitch and New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon discuss the glass city in Zamyatin's 1919 novel We and current concerns about surveillance. Show more
Are our leaders becoming followers? Anne McElvoy chairs a panel including Renewal director David Skelton, NHS executive Julie Moore and columnist David Aaronovitch. Show more
How does not having enough shape the way we think? Is scarcity ever a good thing? Philip Dodd chairs a panel, with Professors Jeremy Till, Simin Davoudi and Sendhil Mullainathan. Show more
A lecture in which Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor Richard Bentall and columnist Clare Allan discuss depression, decision-making and the morality of medical treatments. Show more
A lecture from Sage Gateshead in which Professor Sugata Mitra of Newcastle University talks about teaching ourselves using computers. Presented by Philip Dodd. Show more
From Sage Gateshead, Samira Ahmed presents an interview with film director, writer and artist John Waters. He talks about subjects including his career, hitchhiking and Baltimore. Show more
Dame Fiona Reynolds, lately of the National Trust, and Simon Thurley, CEO of English Heritage, join a panel debating whether we have lost touch with nature. Show more