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Organising the Mind

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe discusses creativity and the organised mind with neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, cognitive scientist Maggie Boden, poet Frances Leviston and conductor Ian Page. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Levitin
Interviewed Guest:
Maggie Boden
Interviewed Guest:
Frances Leviston
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Page
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Free Thinking

Yaa Gyasi, Daniel Levitin, Peter Bazalgette, James Bartholomew on clarity, civility and strong states

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Presented by Philip Dodd. With debates about empathy, rigorous thinking and the welfare state, plus writer Yaa Gyaasi on the importance of home for Africans and African-Americans. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Levitin
Interviewed Guest:
James Bartholomew
Interviewed Guest:
Yaa Gyasi
Interviewed Guest:
Philip Dodd

Free Thinking

Henry Marsh Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem, Daniel Levitin

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet is joined by Henry Marsh and Susannah Clapp to review Tom Stoppard's play The Hard Problem at the National Theatre. Plus musician and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Henry Marsh
Interviewed Guest:
Susannah Clapp
Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Levitin
Interviewed Guest:
Alasdair Cochrane
Interviewed Guest:
Anne Phillips
Producer:
Harry Parker

Music Matters

Music in the Time of Our Lives

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Live from Sage Gateshead as part of the Free Thinking Festival 2017, Tom Service presents a special programme exploring our perception of music and time in daily life. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Service
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Romano
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Levitin
Interviewed Guest:
Eliot Van Buskirk
Interviewed Guest:
Alyson Gausby
Interviewed Guest:
Zeena Feldman
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Petkov