Rana Mitter talks to best-selling novelist Philippa Gregory about writing historical fiction...
Columnist and youth worker Lindsay Johns argues that people should stop pandering to the young,...
Irish writer Colm Tóibin talks about his life, ideas and thoughts on literature, plus his...
Economist and former Vice President of the World Bank Ian Goldin gives a talk on globalisation...
The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen and Egyptian economist Tarek Osman discuss...
Matthew Sweet chairs a debate entitled Aliens: The Ultimate Them and Us, recorded at the Sage...
Writer Julie Bindel gives a talk entitled Not Born This Way, in which she argues that sexuality...
Anne McElvoy chairs a debate entitled Hell Is Other People at the Radio 3 Free Thinking...
Biologist Mark Pagel gives a talk entitled Evolution and Humanity - What Next? at the Radio 3...
Philip Dodd chairs a debate on Immigration and the Challenge to Belonging at the Radio 3 Free...
As Scotland heads toward a referendum on independence, Vicky Featherstone gives a talk on the...
Rana Mitter chairs a debate about world history at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival, with...
Amos Oz, one of Israel's most influential thinkers, gives a talk on the Middle East and the...
An audience with Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, recorded at the Sage...
Historian Tom Holland and theologian Mona Siddiqui discuss the differences between Islam and...
Anne McElvoy chairs a debate at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival, asking whether social...
On the eve of the US election, Michael Ignatieff, former Leader of the Opposition in Canada,...
Matthew Sweet broadcasts live from the Free Thinking Festival 2012 at the Sage Gateshead, with...
Landscape architect Charles Jencks delivers a talk entitled Reclaiming the Universe, in which...
Neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore draws on recent research into the radical changes that...
Rana Mitter chairs a debate on the Luddite Movement to mark its 200th anniversary. The Luddites...
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach, author of the book Fat Is a Feminist Issue and co-founder of The...
Anne McElvoy chairs a debate about the impact of a future energy crisis on people's way of...
Philip Dodd chairs a debate entitled Can We Stop the Mania for Change? Joining him are...
Julian Savulescu, Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford and editor of the...
Leading historian Linda Colley gives a talk on how society has dealt with periods of dramatic...
Germaine Greer, who has caused controversy ever since her book The Female Eunuch became an...
In the wake of the retirement of the space shuttle, Kevin Fong argues that now is no time to...
Anne McElvoy interviews Foreign Secretary William Hague about the dramatic changes taking place...
Rev Dr Giles Fraser, former canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, gives a talk at the BBC...
Recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival 2011, Matthew Sweet interviews...
Matthew Sweet hosts an evening of conversation and debate from The Sage Gateshead about Radio...
Jacqueline Wilson launches this year's festival of ideas with a lecture entitled Beyond the...
The Rev Dr Giles Fraser argues that society is gripped by a crisis of commitment. In a talk...