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Academics and the Media: Friends or Foes?
Debate from Free Thinking 2010 entitled Academics and the Media: Friends or Foes?
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Emancipation: A Listener's Guide
Jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch gives a lecture entitled Emancipation: A Listener's Guide.
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Has God Gone Global?
Philip Dodd chairs a debate at the Sage Gateshead asking Has God Gone Global?
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The Joys of Failure
Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce on the Joys of Failure at the Free Thinking festival.
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Do Possessions Make Us Happy?
Rana Mitter with Sarah Dunant and Sara Maitland ask - do possessions make us happy?
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Violence - A New Perspective
Former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Blair on the part violence plays in human behaviour.
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Ben Franklin and Shopping
TV presenter Kevin McCloud gives a lecture about the importance of craftsmanship.
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Marriage
Writer Frank Cottrell Boyce discusses the subject of marriage. Does it need rescuing?
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What Acting Can Teach You in Life
Actress Fiona Shaw joins a discussion asking 'what acting can teach you about life'.
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Can the Government Make You Happy?
Philip Dodd hosts a debate asking the question 'can the Government make you happy?'.
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Comedy or Tragedy
A debate on which approach to life and art is more illuminating - comedy or tragedy.
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Philosopher Angie Hobbs on Heroes
Angie Hobbs debates today's idea of heroism in war, social justice, the arts and sport.
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Free Thinking 2010
Matthew Sweet hosts a debate reflecting on the 2010 Free Thinking ideas festival.
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What Does Britain Do Best: Sport or the Arts?
A special debate as 5 live sports fans battle with a panel of Radio 3 arts lovers.
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Free Thinking - Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson in a lecture - Beyond the Fairytale: Happiness in the Real World.
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Universities
Philip Dodd debates the question of what we really want from universities and graduates.
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Is the Book Dead?
Philip Dodd is joined by an audience of authors and reader to ask - is the book dead?










