Free Thinking, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
The BBC Radiophonic workshop,opened in 1958 with an aim to experiment and produce original music for various iconic BBC programmes. It was shut down 40 years later by Director General John Birt. In an...
30 Apr 201443min
Free Thinking - 18th Century Sexual Politics
Philip Dodd explores the sexual mores of eighteenth-century England talking to Faramerz Dabhoiwala of Exeter College, Oxford, Joanne Bailey of Oxford Brookes University, David Turner of Swansea Univer...
29 Apr 201444min
Free Thinking - Banksy + Chris Marker
Samira Ahmed discusses the ownership of street art with Mary McCarthy, Director of MM Contemporary Arts; Professor Lionel Bently, barrister and copyright expert on intellectual property, and street ar...
24 Apr 201444min
Free Thinking - Dame Janet Suzman
In extended conversation with Philip Dodd, Dame Janet Suzman talks about her acting and directing and politics in her native South Africa - which goes to the polls on May 7th.
23 Apr 201445min
Free Thinking - 18th Century Crime and Punishment
Philip Dodd explores 18th century attitudes to the law, crime and punishment with Professor Norman S Poser, Antonia Hodgson, Lucy Powell and Geoffrey Robertson QC.
17 Apr 201443min
Free Thinking - 18th Century Economics - Bernard de Mandeville
In 1714 Bernard de Mandeville published his provocative Fable of the Bees, in which he explored the relationship between morality and economic wealth. As part of Radio 3's 18th Century season of pro...
16 Apr 201444min
Free Thinking - 18th Century Power Politics
Anne McElvoy talks to Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Desmond Shawe-Taylor and historians Amanda Foreman, StellaTillyard and Jeremy Black about 18th century monarchy and power.
15 Apr 201443min
Free Thinking - 18th Century
If Mrs Thatcher thought she was living again through Victorian England, we are now living through the eighteenth century. This special edition of Free Thinking explores London as the centre of the wor...
10 Apr 201444min
