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Free ThinkingTearing up the Rule Book

Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2015

  • A stunning view from Sage Gateshead - the venue for Free Thinking Festival
  • Free Thinking Festival 2015
  • The Radio 3 pop-up studio
  • Bridie Jackson and the Arbour get the festival started live on In Tune
  • US poet, Claudia Rankine delivers the Free Thinking lecture
  • The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Peggy Seeger, live at Free Thinking Festival 2015
  • Project Jam Sandwich perform live on World on 3
  • Painting by numbers - no, really. Hadrian's Wall comes to life.
  • Radio 4 joins in with a recording of Start the Week
  • Rule-breaker or rule-maker?
  • Nadine Muller discusses widows in Britain, past and present
  • Festival goers join in
  • Someone knew Radio 3 was coming - some street Moz-art in the north east
  • Rule-Making and Rule-Breaking for Women and Men
  • Sam Robson - the 'one-man' choir - performs on The Choir
  • Rainbow Connection - twice winners of Choir of the Year - perform on The Choir
  • Words and Music was broadcast live from St Mary's Church in Gateshead
  • The sun sets on the festival for another year

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  • Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz—Kathe Kollwitz, John Ashbery, Social Conservatism in US and Europe

  • Matthew Sweet Explores London Through Its Archives.—Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

  • Street Furniture Design—Hisham Matar, Street Furniture, Easternisation, Katherine Cooper on Storm Jameson

  • Superwoman: ‘Work, build and don't whine'—Walter Benjamin, the Soviet Superwoman, Munch

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