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Peggy Seeger

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. John Wilson travels to Oxfordshire to meet the queen of folk, Peggy Seeger. Show more

Free Thinking

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Episode 3: The Population Bomb

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

The Population Bomb: Danny Dorling and Stephen Emmott join Lionel Shriver to look at the warnings of a 1968 book and whether we should heed its view of an overpopulated planet. Show more

Free Thinking

Beards, Listening, Masculinity

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

With Alun Withey on Victorian beards, Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum on fatherhood, and David Halpern and Jim Macnamara debating the value of listening. Matthew Sweet presents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Josh Appignanesi
Interviewed Guest:
Devorah Baum
Interviewed Guest:
Alun Withey
Interviewed Guest:
David Halpern
Interviewed Guest:
Jim Macnamara

Free Thinking

Energy and Landscape: Edward Burtynsky, Ella Hickson

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Edward Burtynsky talks to Philip Dodd about his photographs showing the impact of humans on urban and natural environments. Plus Ella Hickson discussing the politics of oil. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Edward Burtynsky
Interviewed Guest:
Ella Hickson
Interviewed Guest:
Joe Douglas
Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Atherton
Interviewed Guest:
Jeremy Leggett

Free Thinking

Sound Frontiers: People Power - John Bew, Alison Light, Kwasi Kwarteng, Helen Lewis

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

John Bew, Kwasi Kwarteng Helen Lewis and Alison Light join Philip Dodd live in Radio 3's pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre to discuss people power. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
John Bew
Interviewed Guest:
Kwasi Kwarteng
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Lewis
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Light
Presenter:
Philip Dodd

Free Thinking

Sound Frontiers: Kamila Shamsie, Nikesh Shukla, Drugs in the German Reich, Board Games

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Rana Mitter presents. With Norman Ohler talking about Hitler's drug addiction, Nikesh Shukla and Kamila Shamsie on migration and a discussion about the metamorphosis of gaming. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Rana Mitter
Interviewed Guest:
Norman Ohler
Interviewed Guest:
Nikesh Shukla
Interviewed Guest:
Kamila Shamsie
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Howell
Interviewed Guest:
Marie Foulston

Free Thinking

Kevin Brownlow

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet visits film historian Kevin Brownlow at his home to discuss with him his work documenting the early history of cinema and preserving many lost classics. Show more

Free Thinking

Artist Tom Phillips at 80, How do we save our plants?

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Artist Tom Phillips talks to Philip Dodd about his career as he marks his 80th birthday. Plus a discussion about lilies with Pippa Greenwood, Murphy Westwood and Carlos Magdalena. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Tom Phillips
Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Pippa Greenwood
Interviewed Guest:
Murphy Westwood
Interviewed Guest:
Carlos Magdalena

Free Thinking

Will Self, RD Laing, Mandy

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Will Self talks to Matthew Sweet about his new novel, treating subjects such as the mind, consciousness, ADHD, Alzheimer's and PTSD. Plus director Robert Mullan and the film Mandy. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Will Self
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Mullan
Interviewed Guest:
Melanie Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Mandy Miller

Free Thinking

Our Relationship with Animals

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Chris Packham discusses his 'animal symphony', Will Abberley reviews a Wellcome Collection show, Helen Pilcher on the science of de-extinction and Alan Hook on computing for cats. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Rana Mitter
Interviewed Guest:
Nitin Sawhney
Interviewed Guest:
Will Abberley
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Pilcher

Free Thinking

John Simpson on the death of the war correspondent

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

John Simpson talks about 50 years of reporting from around the world for the BBC, and Philip Dodd and guests discuss what we mean by 'news' in the digital age. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
John Simpson
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Thompson
Interviewed Guest:
Susie Boniface
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Pomerantsev
Interviewed Guest:
Martin Moore

Free Thinking

La La Land and Hollywood - past and present

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet hears from agent Clancy Sigal about the absurdities of the 1950s movie business. Plus the film La La Land, Hollywood self-obsession and obsessive film collectors. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Clancy Sigal
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Wheatley
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Dennis Bartok
Interviewed Guest:
Jeff Joseph

Free Thinking

Oscar Nominations 2017, T2 Trainspotting

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

On the day of the Oscar nominations, Matthew Sweet is joined by critics Dana Stevens and Ryan Gilbey and writer Christopher Frayling to survey the films of 2016. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Dana Stevens
Interviewed Guest:
Ryan Gilbey
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Frayling
Interviewed Guest:
Stevie Mackenzie-Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Deborah Lipstadt

Free Thinking

Global anger and family conflict with Pankaj Mishra and Elif Shafak.

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Presented by Philip Dodd. With Indian writer Pankaj Mishra discussing anger and Elif Shafak talking about her latest novel, plus Douglas Murray and Julius Krein. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Pankaj Mishra
Interviewed Guest:
Elif Shafak
Interviewed Guest:
Douglas Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Julius Krein

Free Thinking

What now for environmentalism? With Paul Kingsnorth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Writer Paul Kingsnorth talks to Philip Dodd about his changing attitude to the environmental movement. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Paul Kingsnorth
Interviewed Guest:
James Thornton
Interviewed Guest:
Martin Goodman
Interviewed Guest:
Maria Delgado
Presenter:
Philip Dodd

Free Thinking

Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

BBC news head James Harding on a stage version of Network starring Bryan Cranston. Plus presenter Rana Mitter talks Rana Mitter talks to Jaron Lanier, the 'father of VR'. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Rana Mitter
Interviewed Guest:
James Harding
Interviewed Guest:
Gloria Origgi
Interviewed Guest:
Jaron Lanier

Free Thinking

The man who convinced Jimmy Carter to run for president

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Arts and cultural debate. Matthew Sweet talks to physician, anthropologist, author and international civil servant, Peter Bourne. Show more

Free Thinking

Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Douglas Murray, Ed Husain and Bari Weiss take us inside the 'intellectual dark web'. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Douglas Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Bari Weiss
Interviewed Guest:
Ed Husain

Free Thinking

Renzo Piano

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Italian architect and engineer Renzo Piano talks to Philip Dodd about his career, from the Pompidou Centre in Paris, co-designed with Richard Rogers, to the Shard in London. Show more