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On Interviewing Tony Benn
Matthew Sweet
Radio 3 Presenter
Matthew Sweet recalls interviewing Tony Benn and reflects on his life and career.
Free Thinking 2013 at Sage Gateshead - day two
Rosalind Porter
Drugs, music, scarcity, poetry... Day two of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival covered a lot of ground.
Free Thinking 2013 at Sage Gateshead - day one
Rosalind Porter
Free Thinking 2013 is under way. Rosalind Porter rounds up day one at Sage Gateshead
Today's viewing from Free Thinking at The Sage Gateshead
Rosalind Porter
Rosalind Porter is a Radio 3 Listener Blogger Whatever the weather, wherever you are - do come along to The Sage Gateshead today for the final frantic round of Free Thinking events. But even if you prefer to stay at home in the warm - there's plenty of Free Thinking to be cogitated on via the...
What makes good radio viewing?
Rosalind Porter
Music Matters panel: (l to r) Paul Morley, Zoe Martlew, Tom Service, Kathryn Tickell, Graham Vick Rosalind Porter is a Radio 3 Listener Blogger. It has been an interesting morning so far, snuggled up near a warm radiator, my laptop on my knees with the Free Thinking guide beside me. I'm ...
Watching Colm Toibin - Free Thinking's Books at Breakfast
Rosalind Porter
Philip Dodd (left) and Colm Toibin. Photo: BBC This live streaming webcast was an absolutely brilliant programme. It immediately reminded me of the old style culture programmes one would get on TV years ago with the inimitable Huw Weldon's 'Monitor': One interviewer - in this case Night ...
Blogging on ... to the Free Thinking video stream
Rosalind Porter
Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. Photo © BBC Radio 3 Listener Blogger Rosalind Porter reports from Free Thinking 2012 at The Sage Gatehead Once again the foyers and halls are bustling with thinkers and there's a major new innovation to bring more people into the live exper...
Drama of the Free Thinking Drama ...
Graeme Kay
Producer, Speech and Classical Digital Hub, BBC Audio
Broadcasting live radio drama is a seat-of-the-pants exercise. Producer Kate Rowland describes what goes in to this Sunday's Free Thinking Drama from Gateshead's Baltic Exchange ... Each year the Freethinking drama does two things to me, it gives me a huge creative adrenalin rush, and in equa...
Free Thinking online and in living colour
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Free Thinking, Radio 3's annual festival of ideas, is this weekend. It starts on Friday evening with a special In Tune, live from The Sage Gateshead, and the festival goes on all weekend, covering dozens of big issues. The theme this year is 'them and us'. The band of interesting, provocative...
Introducing Free Thinking 2012
Tim Prosser
Radio 3 Producer Tim Prosser reveals the plans for this year's Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival We're delighted to announce that the Free Thinking Festival will be returning to The Sage, Gateshead in November for a packed weekend of debate, talks and performance (Friday 2 Nov - Sunday 4 Nov...
