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| Day | Broadcasts | Time |
|---|---|---|
Mon 22 - Thu 25 October | The People's Choice debate. | 9.45pm - 10.30pm |
Friday 9th November | Phil Redmond: The Free Thinking Lecture | 9.45pm - 10.45pm |
Sunday 11th November | An evening of highlights from the festival, live from BBC Radio Merseyside. Including 'Yesterday An Incident Occurred' by Mark Ravenhill and Words and Music on freedom. | 8.00pm-12.00pm |
Monday 12th November | Philip Dodd chairs one of the keynote debates 'Are we freer than we think?'. | 9.45pm |
Tuesday 13th November | Including the debates 'Exams prove nothing and should be abolished' 'What's Theatre for?' and 'Walkie Talkies' A specially commissioned drama for Free Thinking by Kaite O'Reilly. | 9.45pm |
Wednesday 14th November | Including the keynote debate 'Have we destroyed the dream of equality' and Jean Grant'sFreedom of the City walk. . | 9.45pm |
Thursday 15th November | Professor of Space Science, John Zarnecki, attempts to answer the question 'Space: why are we there?'. | 9.45pm |
Friday 16th November | Ian McMillan hosts The Verb, recorded live at Free Thinking in Liverpool. The Listen Again service for this programme is no longer available. | 9.45pm |
Monday 12th - Thursday 15th November | 11.00pm every evening. As part of BBC Radio 3's festival of ideas, Free Thinking, The Essay plays host to writers reflecting on freedom. | 11.00-11.15pm |
Weekly until Dec 13th 2007 | Free Thinking programmes continue in Radio3's Night Waves slot on Thursday nights at 9.45pm until December 13th. | |
Thursday 22nd November | Albie Sachs came to prominence as one of the most influential members of the ANC in the days of apartheid. He talks about his remarkable past and his hopes for the future, and discusses his understanding of freedom with Isabel Hilton and the audience in Liverpool. | 9.45pm |
Thursday 29th November | Film director Mike Figgis delivers a lecture entitled 'Is There Too Much Culture?'. | 9.45pm |
Wednesday 5th December | Written in the 1930s and set in London in 2540, Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' anticipates developments in reproductive technology and biological engineering that change society. Have we surpassed Huxley's predictions? | 9.45pm |
Thursday 6th December | Rhetoric in a Prosaic Age Tony Blair's former speech writer Philip Collins discusses the apparent decline in rhetoric. Isabel Hilton and guests respond to his remarks about Aristotle, Cicero, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and the art of political oratory. | 9.45pm |
