Free Thinking 2013 - Wombs on Legs?
From HG Wells and Margaret Atwood to Battlestar Galactica, science fiction texts and tv series have long used birth control as a metaphor for the limits on individual freedom. New Generation Thinker S...
28 Aug 201414min
Free Thinking 2013 - Ecstatic
The audience at a rock concert adoring the star; a Pentecostalist congregation praising God; an athlete reaching the pitch of performance known as "the zone" - these can all be described as feelings o...
28 Aug 201414min
Free Thinking 2013 - Language Wars
Defenders of traditional English language and grammar often present themselves as purists but New Generation Thinker John Gallagher, from Cambridge University, argues that we have always borrowed word...
27 Aug 201413min
Free Thinking 2013 - Cutting Tradition
What do recent debates among medical ethicists and lawyers over male infant circumcision reveal about the different ways we view male and female bodies? Rebecca Steinfeld, from the School of Oriental ...
26 Aug 201414min
Free Thinking 2013 - False Conception
Annie Besant promoted contraceptive advice to the Victorian working classes. In 1877 she was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell, from King's Collge Lond...
26 Aug 201412min
Free Thinking 2013 - What's Eating You?
What is the place of food and body image in contemporary culture? Lionel Shriver is the author of novels including We Need To Talk About Kevin and Big Brother, which depicts the impact of food obsessi...
23 Aug 201443min
Prom Plus Literary - Iceland
As the Iceland Symphony Orchestra appear at the Proms, Radio 3's New Generation Thinker and expert in Nordic sagas Eleanor Rosamond Barraclough joins novelist Joanna Kavenna to discuss Icelandic cultu...
22 Aug 201420min
Prom Plus Literary – Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen is one of the greatest First World War writers. The poets Fred d'Aguiar and Michael Longley discuss the work of the poet whose poetry inspired Britten's War Requiem. This programme, is p...
22 Aug 201434min
