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Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 5: Quick Reactions

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Former Formula 1 racing driver Damon Hill, paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson and retired Col Lincoln Jopp discuss adrenaline's connection to handling crises with Rana Mitter. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Damon Hill
Interviewed Guest:
Tanni Grey-Thompson
Interviewed Guest:
Lincoln Jopp
Presenter:
Rana Mitter

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 7: The Speed of Revolution

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Bettany Hughes, Sir Richard J Evans and John Hall consider whether periods of turmoil are seen as revolutionary at the time or whether we only understand change retrospectively. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Bettany Hughes
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Evans
Interviewed Guest:
John Hall
Presenter:
Philip Dodd

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 8: The Never-Ending Workday

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

A discussion in which Sathnam Sanghera, Judy Wajcman, Griselda Togobo and Robert Colvile explore the history of the workplace, from factory floor to hot desk to the gig economy. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Sathnam Sanghera
Interviewed Guest:
Judy Wajcman
Interviewed Guest:
Griselda Togobo
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Colvile
Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Producer:
Craig Smith

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 10: Education Slow and Fast

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Tony Sewell, director of Generating Genius, and Mike Grenier, co-founder of the slow education movement, discuss how time and technology are at the heart of 21st century education. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Tony Sewell
Interviewed Guest:
Mike Grenier
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 11: New Generation Thinkers 2017

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

In front of an audience at Sage Gateshead, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough introduces the ten academics selected as the 2017 cohort of New Generation Thinkers. Show more

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 12: An interview with Haemin Sunim

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Before an audience at Sage Gateshead, Rana Mitter explores east and west, and calm in a fast-paced world with author Haemin Sunim and New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding. Show more

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 14: Time, Space and Science

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

From Sage Gateshead, Rana Mitter introduces a discussion in which Carlos Frenk. Eugenia Cheng, Jim Al-Khalili and Louisa Preston consider the connections between time and space. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Carlos Frenk
Interviewed Guest:
Eugenia Cheng
Interviewed Guest:
Jim Al-Khalili
Interviewed Guest:
Louisa Preston
Presenter:
Rana Mitter

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 16: Taking the Long View with the Animal Kingdom

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Field scientists Tim Birkhead and Phyllis Lee discuss long-lived animal species, their survival strategies and how their lives have shaped the minds of those who study them. Show more

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 13: Writing Life

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris join Philip Dodd and audience at Sage Gateshead to discuss time and place in modern Britain. Show more

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 1: Sleep - Freedom to Think

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

In front of an audience at Sage Gateshead, Professor Russell Foster delivers the opening lecture of Radio 3's 2017 Free Thinking Festival, on the theme of 'the speed of life'. Show more

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 3: Politics Fast and Slow

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Harriet Harman, first elected a Labour MP in 1982, talks to Philip Dodd about championing women's rights and sustaining a political career in a fast-changing political world. Show more

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 4: How Short is a Short Story?

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

In front of an audience at Sage Gateshead, Matthew Sweet explores writing short and long-form fiction with writers George Saunders, Kirsty Logan, Jenn Asworth and Paul McVeigh. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
George Saunders
Interviewed Guest:
Kirsty Logan
Interviewed Guest:
Jenn Ashworth
Interviewed Guest:
Paul McVeigh

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 2: Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher debate the speed of life

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher compare experiences of life in the fast lane with taking the slow route, whether in business, writing or leisure time. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Pinky Lilani
Interviewed Guest:
Denise Mina
Interviewed Guest:
Jay Griffiths
Interviewed Guest:
John Gallagher
Producer:
Craig Smith

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 6: Doing Time/Confinement

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

In front of an audience at Sage Gateshead, Anne McElvoy presents a discussion about the experience of isolation. With guests Terry Waite, Dr Cleo van Velsen and Erwin James. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Terry Waite
Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Cleo Van Velsen
Interviewed Guest:
Erwin James

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 9: The Time of Your Life

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Health minister-turned-broadcaster Edwina Currie, journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer, and teacher and columnist Lola Okolosie discuss the different times of our lives. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Edwina Currie
Interviewed Guest:
Miranda Sawyer
Interviewed Guest:
Lola Okolosie
Producer:
Craig Smith

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

My Body Clock Is Broken

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Writer Jay Griffiths, Dr Vincent Deary and Professors Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss how depression affects our sense of time and the rhythms of daily life. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Jay Griffiths
Interviewed Guest:
Vincent Deary
Interviewed Guest:
Louise Robinson
Interviewed Guest:
Matthew Smith
Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Producer:
Zahid Warley