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Professor Richard Gameson explains why 大象传媒 Newcastle and Radio 3 audiences voted the medieval monk and chronicler the Venerable Bede as the North East's greatest-ever Free Thinker.

As part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival 2009 大象传媒 Newcastle and Radio 3 audiences voted the medieval monk and chronicler The Venerable Bede as the greatest Free Thinker in the history of the North East. Professor Richard Gameson of Durham University explains why he believes Bede was a natural choice, in a talk recorded in front of an audience at The Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas.

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