Night Waves Free Thinking 2009 Episodes Available now
- All
- Available now (18)
- Next on (0)
Sarah Hall/Hugh Pym/Speed Dating with a Thinker
Highlights from Free Thinking 2009, including Sarah Hall on the sources of her writing.
Lionel Shriver/Ian McMillan
Lionel Shriver talks to Anne McElvoy about her novel A Perfectly Good Family.
Tom Shakespeare
Talk by Tom Shakespeare on how art can help us understand today's difficult moral issues.
Dan Cruickshank: Building Memories
Globe-trotting architect Dan Cruickshank on why we must restore lost historic buildings.
Julia Neuberger - Mind the Gap
Julia Neuberger gives a lecture about ending prejudice against Britain's senior citizens.
Free Thinking - The Future of Men
A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead for men.
Michael Brearley: Narcissism and Leadership
Psychoanalyst Michael Brearley delivers a talk about the nature of leadership.
Landmarks: Land of Three Rivers
A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and Wear.
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine on how IVF is changing our ideas about the definition of a family.
Sport or the Arts
Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.