Free Thinking Episodes Available now
False Conception: Female Sexuality in Victorian England—2013 Festival, Free Thinking Essay
3/10 New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell discusses women's rights activist Annie Besant.
Power to the People: What Choices Do We Have?—2013 Festival
David Skelton, David Aaronovitch and Julie Moore discuss power and consultation.
The Real Game of Thrones: Power in 15th-Century England—2013 Festival, Free Thinking Essay
2/10 Sarah Peverley explores shifts in royal power during the Wars of the Roses.
Science Fiction and Surveillance: Zamyatin's We—2013 Festival
Matthew Sweet discusses Zamyatin's 1919 novel We, which depicts spying in a glass city.
Boneless, Bloodaxe and Hairy Breeches: What Did the Vikings Ever Do for Us?—2013 Festival, Free Thinking Essay
1/10 Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the power battles between Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings.
Are We at a Tipping Point? Controlling Infection and Combatting Disease—2013 Festival
Professor Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England, lectures on disease.
Michael Marmot on Self-Control—2013 Festival
Michael Marmot's Free Thinking Lecture, asking 'Is self-control the key to a long life?'.
Michael Grigsby's Film-making Career—2013 Festival, Derry-Londonderry
2/2 Matthew Sweet discusses the work of the late film director Michael Grigsby.
Derry-Londonderry's Cultural History—2013 Festival, Derry-Londonderry
1/2 How Derry-Londonderry and its citizens have been shaped by political and religious history
York Festival of Ideas—Free Thinking in Summer 2013
Rana Mitter with a debate from the York Festival of Ideas. Can we afford ethical business?
