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Free Thinking

Hay Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2016

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Rana Mitter introduces the ten academics named as the New Generation Thinkers for 2016. They share interesting facts from their research with an audience at Hay Festival. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Rana Mitter
Interviewed Guest:
Leah Broad
Interviewed Guest:
Katherine Cooper
Interviewed Guest:
Victoria Donovan
Interviewed Guest:
Louisa Uchum Egbunike
Interviewed Guest:
Seb Falk
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Kissane
Interviewed Guest:
Anindya Raychaudhuri
Interviewed Guest:
Edmund Richardson
Interviewed Guest:
Sean Williams
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Free Thinking

Universities: Therapy or Learning?

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Philip Dodd and a New Generation Thinker debate universities, asking whether they are for therapy or learning. With New Generation Thinker Sean Williams. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Sean Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Matt Lodder
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Shahidha Bari
Producer:
Ruth Watts

Free Thinking

Davos Discussions, Shobana Jeyasingh, Barbers in concentration camps

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

With Anne McElvoy. With a debate about topics explored at the 2017 World Economic Forum, research into barbers in WWII concentration camps and choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Douglas Alexander
Interviewed Guest:
Liam Halligan
Interviewed Guest:
Andrew McAfee
Interviewed Guest:
Sean Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Shobana Jeyasingh