Marriage guidance ...

Frank Cottrell Boyce

When the screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce - this year's Thinker-in-residence at the Free Thinking Festival - was asked by Radio 3 which topic he would like to be the subject of a public debate, he replied 'marriage'.

The ensuing discussion was broadcast in Radio 3's Night Waves last Tuesday - you can listen to the broadcast by following this link. 

To feed into the discussion, we asked audiences at Free Thinking to give us their thoughts on post-it notes which were put up on screens in the foyer of The Sage Gateshead, where the festival took place.

The notes were by turns witty, thought-provoking, laugh-out-loud funny and poignant. You can find a selection of these messages by following this link to the programme page, but a much more extensive sample is on our Facebook page which you'll find by clicking this link. You can also add your own messages there.