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The Free Thinking Essay

What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?

Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, on AI and Douglas Adams.

• 15 mins

Is Music a Civilising Force?

Sir Roger Scruton

Sir Roger Scruton explores the civilising force of music.

• 15 mins

Is Music a Civilising Force?

Professor Alice Roberts

Anatomist and osteoarchaeologist Alice Roberts looks at music's humananising force.

• 15 mins

Is Music a Civilising Force?

Professor Kofi Agawu

Professor Kofi Agawu examines the civilising force of music from an African perspective.

• 15 mins

Is Music a Civilising Force?

Jameela Siddiqi

Jameela Siddiqi explores the civilising force of music from an Indian perspective.

• 15 mins

Is Music a Civilising Force?

Paul Morley

Paul Morley concludes the series of essays debating music as a civilising force.

• 15 mins

The Book that Changed Me

Afua Hirsch on 'Wide Sargasso Sea'

How journalist and writer Hirsch changed her view of Jean Rhys's novel.

• 13 mins

The Book that Changed Me

Henry Marsh on 'War and Peace'

Neurosurgeon and writer Henry Marsh on the influence of Tolstoy's epic novel.

• 15 mins

The Book that Changed Me

Zarah Hussain on The Arabian Nights

The artist describes the inspiration of these legendary tales.

• 15 mins

The Book that Changed Me

Alastair Campbell on 'Madame Bovary'

Tony Blair's former spokesman on how Flaubert inspired his love of French culture.

• 15 mins

The Book that Changed Me

Inua Ellams on Terry Pratchett

The poet and playwright on the fantasy comedy 'Pyramids'.

• 15 mins

One Bar Electric Memoir

Episode 1

Artist and writer Harland Miller reveals how an eventful past has fed into his work.

• 14 mins

One Bar Electric Memoir

Episode 2

Artist and writer Harland Miller reveals how an eventful past has fed into his work.

• 14 mins

One Bar Electric Memoir

Episode 3

Artist and writer Harland Miller reveals how an eventful past has fed into his work..

• 15 mins

One Bar Electric Memoir

Episode 4

Artist and writer Harland Miller reveals how an eventful past has fed into his work.

• 14 mins

One Bar Electric Memoir

One Bar Electric Memoir - 5

Artist and writer Harland Miller reveals how an eventful past has fed into his work.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers: Penny Gore on Leo拧 Jan谩膷ek

Celebrating a composer whose music is shot through with the uncertainties of life.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers: Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen

Celebrating the birdsong-inspired music of the 20th-century French composer, Messiaen.

• 13 mins

Secret Admirers: Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger

Folk musician Kathryn Tickell celebrates the Australian-American folksong fanatic.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers: Andrew McGregor on Thomas Tallis

Reflections on the powerful Lamentations of English composer Thomas Tallis.

• 13 mins

Secret Admirers: Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue

Celebrating the French composer and her inspirational long-form sense of perspective.

• 13 mins

Secret Admirers

Penny Gore on Leo拧 Jan谩膷ek

Radio 3 presenter Penny Gore celebrates the Czech composer Leo拧 Jan谩膷ek.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers

Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen

Radio 3 presenter Tom McKinney celebrates French composer Olivier Messiaen.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers

Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger

Radio 3 presenter Kathryn Tickell celebrates composer and folksong fanatic Percy Grainger.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers

Andrew McGregor on Thomas Tallis

Radio 3 presenter Andrew McGregor celebrates Thomas Tallis's powerful Lamentations.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers

Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue

Radio 3 presenter Kate Molleson celebrates French composer Eliane Radigue.

• 14 mins

Dark Blossoms

Deer Cry Hall

Japan's uneasy embrace of modernity, exemplified by a controversial 19th-century building.

• 14 mins

Dark Blossoms

Happy Families

Chris Harding explores contrasting models of 'family' in turn-of-the-century Japan.

• 14 mins

Dark Blossoms

Rebranding the Buddha

How Buddhism was reimagined in the service of Japanese militarism.

• 14 mins

Dark Blossoms

The Art of the Heist

How a famous crime is also a metaphor for 1960s Japan.

• 14 mins