Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Chalke Valley History Festival—Free Thinking in Summer 2013
A debate on how the British have looked to their history for a sense of national identity.
HowTheLightGetsIn Festival—Free Thinking in Summer 2013
Philip Dodd examines The Problem with Love at the How the Light Gets In festival in Hay.
Philosophy Night—Free Thinking in Summer 2013
Rana Mitter chairs a debate from the Philosophy Night marathon at the Insitut Fran莽ais.
York Festival of Ideas - Wars of the Roses—Free Thinking in Summer 2013
Rana Mitter examines the legacy of the War of the Roses at the 2013 York Festival of Ideas
Peter Brook
Peter Brook 1925-2022: the theatre director in conversation with Matthew Sweet in 2013.
Philippa Gregory—2012 Festival
Novelist Philippa Gregory talks to Rana Mitter at the 2012 Free Thinking festival.
Lindsay Johns—2012 Festival
From Free Thinking 2012, Lindsay Johns argues that we should stop listening to the young.
Colm Toibin—2012 Festival
Irish writer Colm Toibin talks to Philip Dodd at the 2012 Free Thinking festival.
Ian Goldin—2012 Festival
Ian Goldin gives a talk entitled Globalisation and the Future at Free Thinking 2012.
Revolution and Democracy: The Arab Spring—2012 Festival
Jeremy Bowen and Tarek Osman discuss the Arab Spring at the 2012 Free Thinking festival.