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Festival 2017

Sleep - Freedom to Think

Russell Foster delivers the opening lecture of Radio 3's 2017 Free Thinking Festival.

• 60 mins

Festival 2017

Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher debate the speed of life

Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher debate the speed of life.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

Politics Fast and Slow

Labour MP Harriet Harman on sustaining her career in a fast-changing political world.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

How Short is a Short Story?

George Saunders, Kirsty Logan, Jenn Ashworth and Paul McVeigh on writing short fiction.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

Quick Reactions

Damon Hill,Tanni Grey-Thompson and Lincoln Jopp on pressured decision-making at top speed

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

Doing Time/Confinement

Terry Waite, Erwin James and Cleo van Velsen on the experience of isolation.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

The Speed of Revolution

Bettany Hughes, Richard J Evans and John Hall join Philip Dodd and an audience at Sage.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

The Never-Ending Workday

Matthew Sweet introduces a discussion exploring the history of the workplace.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

The Time of Your Life

Edwina Currie, Miranda Sawyer and Lola Okolosie explore the different times of our lives.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

Education Slow and Fast

Tony Sewell and Mike Grenier discuss the challenges of education in the 21st century.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

New Generation Thinkers 2017

The 2017 New Generation Thinkers make their first public appearance together.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

An interview with Haemin Sunim

Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist meditation teacher, on calm in a fast-paced 21st-century world.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

Writing Life

Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris explore time and place in modern Britain.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

Time, Space and Science

Carlos Frenk, Eugenia Cheng, Jim Al-Khalili and Louisa Preston debate time and space.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

My Body Clock Is Broken

Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health.

• 45 mins

Festival 2017

Taking the Long View with the Animal Kingdom

Tim Birkhead and Phyllis Lee on long-lived animal species and their survival strategies.

• 45 mins

Smell: Michele Roberts, A history of dentistry.

Matthew Sweet is joined by writer Michele Roberts, who talks about her latest novel.

• 45 mins

What now for environmentalism? With Paul Kingsnorth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman

Writer Paul Kingsnorth talks about his changing attitude to the environmental movement.

• 45 mins

Wellcome Book Prize, Civil Wars: Susan Buck-Morss and AC Grayling, Louisa Egbunike and Akachi Ezeigbo.

Anne McElvoy discusses nation states and war with AC Grayling and Susan Buck-Morss.

• 45 mins

Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution

Peter Stanford, Ulinka Rublack and Diarmaid MacCulloch discuss Martin Luther.

• 45 mins

Breaking Free - How the Reformation Changed British Daily Life

Rana Mitter discusses research into the way life changed in Britain after the Reformation.

• 45 mins

Breaking Free: Landmark - Paradise Lost

John Carey, Mandy Green, Islam Issa and Joe Moshenska discuss Milton's Paradise Lost.

• 45 mins

Wolfson History Prize

Rana Mitter is joined by the six authors shortlisted for the 2017 Wolfson History Prize.

• 45 mins

Angels in America, Salom茅, Queer British Art.

Philip Dodd looks at desire and politics as Angels in America runs at the National Theatre

• 45 mins

Laurent Binet, France, Blockchains

With novelist Laurent Binet, a discussion about France, and blockchain technology.

• 45 mins

Artist Taryn Simon. Deglobalisation. 2017 New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck on the circus.

With artist Taryn Simon, a discussion about circuses and a debate about 'deglobalisation'.

• 45 mins

Rachel Seiffert, James Hawes, Richard Nelson, 2017 New Generation Thinker Alistair Fraser on gangs.

Anne McElvoy and her guests discuss German-Russian history, US electioneering and crime.

• 45 mins

Fiona Shaw and Mark Ravenhill on Brecht, John Knox, Joanne Paul

Philip Dodd discusses speaking truth to power and the beliefs of John Knox and Galileo.

• 45 mins

Bella Bathurst, Mike Figgis, Birds in British literature, 2017 New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt on music and health

Matthew Sweet explores deafness, plot twists, birds in books & how music is good for you

• 45 mins

Japan and Korea, Hokusai

Chris Harding discusses the work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

• 45 mins