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Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Cultural discussion programme. Kirsty Wark with author Lionel Shriver, economist Linda Yueh, sociologist Bev Skeggs and poet Sean O'Brien. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Wark
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Linda Yueh
Interviewed Guest:
Bev Skeggs
Interviewed Guest:
Sean O'Brien
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Poetry Please

Philip Larkin

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Hull is 2017's European Capital of Culture, and Roger McGough is joined by Sean O'Brien, Douglas Dunn and Paul Farley to celebrate the city's most famous librarian, Philip Larkin. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Roger McGough
Interviewed Guest:
Sean O'Brien
Interviewed Guest:
Douglas Dunn
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Farley
Producer:
Sally Heaven

Front Row

Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist, The Shires, Poet Sean O'Brien

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, country band The Shires play live in studio plus a look at poet Sean O'Brien's new collection, Europa. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Toby Lichtig
Interviewed Guest:
The Shires
Interviewed Guest:
Sean O'Brien
Performer:
The Shires
Performer:
Sean O'Brien
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Front Row

Matt Smith on Unreachable, Author Sean O'Brien, Summertime film review, Cultural Olympiad legacy

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Matt Smith and director Anthony Neilson on Unreachable, Sean O'Brien on his novel Once Again Assembled Here, Ruth Mackenzie on the Cultural Olympiad legacy, Summertime reviewed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Producer:
Elaine Lester
Interviewed Guest:
Matt Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Anthony Neilson
Interviewed Guest:
Sean O'Brien
Interviewed Guest:
Ruth Mackenzie
Interviewed Guest:
Hannah McGill

Free Thinking

Landmark: Dante's The Divine Comedy

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Philip Dodd discusses Dante's The Divine Comedy with scholars Prue Shaw and Nick Havely, poet Sean O'Brien and writer Kevin Jackson. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Prue Shaw
Interviewed Guest:
Sean O'Brien
Interviewed Guest:
Nick Havely
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Following in the footsteps of WH Auden's 1936 documentary Night Mail, six of Britain's best poets take the train from London to Glasgow, capturing the journey in verse. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Maxine Peake
Participant:
Liz Berry
Participant:
Imtiaz Dharker
Participant:
Sabrina Mahfouz
Participant:
Andrew McMillan
Participant:
Sean O'Brien
Executive Producer:
Alistair Pegg
Producer:
Joe Fowler
Director:
James House
Production Company:
Blast! Films