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  1. Sarah Hall/Hugh Pym/Speed Dating with a Thinker

    Highlights from Free Thinking 2009, including Sarah Hall on the sources of her writing.

  2. Lionel Shriver/Ian McMillan

    Lionel Shriver talks to Anne McElvoy about her novel A Perfectly Good Family.

  3. Tom Shakespeare

    Talk by Tom Shakespeare on how art can help us understand today's difficult moral issues.

  4. Dan Cruickshank: Building Memories

    Globe-trotting architect Dan Cruickshank on why we must restore lost historic buildings.

  5. Julia Neuberger - Mind the Gap

    Julia Neuberger gives a lecture about ending prejudice against Britain's senior citizens.

  6. Free Thinking - The Future of Men

    A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead for men.

  7. Michael Brearley: Narcissism and Leadership

    Psychoanalyst Michael Brearley delivers a talk about the nature of leadership.

  8. Landmarks: Land of Three Rivers

    A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and Wear.

  9. Lisa Jardine

    Lisa Jardine on how IVF is changing our ideas about the definition of a family.

  10. Sport or the Arts

    Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.

  11. Free Thinking - David Miliband

    Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd at 2009's Free Thinking festival.

  12. Free Thinking festival 2009

    Rana Mitter hosts a public debate: Is The West Losing Its Nerve?

  13. Free Thinking - William Orbit

    Innovative music producer William Orbit presents his personal guide to the world of sound.

  14. Free Thinking - Gwen Adshead

    Philip Dodd meets psychotherapist Gwen Adshead. Contains some disturbing images.

  15. Free Thinking - Ken Livingstone

    Ken Livingstone asks an audience in Gateshead if the North-South divide still matters.

  17. Opening Lecture - Tanya Byron

    2009's Free Thinking festival opens with Tanya Byron's vision of the 21st-century family.