Night Waves - Britten 100, Theatre Uncut, John F Kennedy
With the return of the Young Vic's Theatre Uncut season, Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil LaBute, Hannah Price and Tiffany Jenkins to discuss the role and nature of political theatre. Writer Scott Turow...
22 Nov 201344min
Free Thinking 2013 - Penny Woolcock
Penny Woolcock talks to Samira Ahmed about directing a film version of John Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer. For the Free Thinking Festival, she returned to the city where she began her career....
20 Nov 201343min
Night Waves - Doctor Who at 50
50 years of Dr Who is celebrated this weekend by the BBC. Matthew Sweet discusses the TV series with historian Dominic Sandbrook, philosopher Ray Monk and New Generation Thinker and cultural historian...
20 Nov 201344min
Free Thinking 2013 - Whose Strife
Whose Strife Is It Anyway? Amit Chaudhuri, Gaiutra Bahadur and Aamer Ahmed Khan discuss depictions of the powerless in fiction and factual reporting with Rana Mitter. Chaudhuri has explored life in Ca...
14 Nov 201341min
Free Thinking 2013 - Audiences
In a bid to reach new audiences, theatre is increasingly moving off the stage and the visual arts are coming out of the gallery, but is this a welcome trend? Matthew Sweet chairs the Free Thinking pan...
12 Nov 201342min
Free Thinking 2013 - Therapy Versus Prayer
Is the idea of counselling as non-judgmental listening flawed? New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding, from Edinburgh University, focuses his talk on attitudes in Japan and the UK. He asks whether...
8 Nov 201314min
Free Thinking 2013 - Who's Got Hold of Children's Imaginations?
As we strive to protect our children’s imaginations from negative influences, are we running an even greater risk – of starving those imaginations altogether? Writer Patrick Ness, author of the ‘Chaos...
8 Nov 201343min
Free Thinking 2013 - The Countryside
Are our policy makers too urban in their outlook? Have we lost touch with nature? On stage at Free Thinking to debate the issue are: Dame Fiona Reynolds, former head of the National Trust; Simon Thurl...
8 Nov 201343min
