Free Thinking Festival: Northern Lights: Joanne Harris on the Norse god Loki
Long Joanne Harris, the multi-million selling author of Chocolat, discusses her new novel, The Gospel of Loki, inspired by the Norse god of trickery, mischief and deception, a shape-shifter whose cul...
8 Dec 201544min
Free Thinking - Mein Kampf; Larissa MacFarquhar; Julia Margaret Cameron
Anne McElvoy discusses Mein Kampf coming out of copyright with Ben Barkow of the Wiener Library in London, Heinrich von Berenberg – a publisher based in Berlin and Nicholas Stargardt, author of The Ge...
7 Dec 201544min
Free Thinking - Kenzaburo Oe, Artist and Empire at Tate Britain, Japan and Cool Now
Philip Dodd and New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding review the newly translated novel from Nobel prize winner Kenzaburo Oe; historian Naoko Shimazu and curator Mizuki Takahashi discuss the cheq...
2 Dec 201544min
Free Thinking - Umberto Eco
Italian author Umberto Eco is in conversation with Matthew Sweet. Eco is the author of essays, novels, childrens' books and criticism including his best-selling story The Name of the Rose. His new nov...
1 Dec 201544min
Rule Making and Rule Breaking for Women and Men.
Do men and women have different attitudes to rule breaking? With changing ideas about gender, can we say that our minds are wired differently? Helen Fraser, head of the Girls' Day School Trust said re...
26 Nov 201546min
Free Thinking Festival - Breathalysing Britain: Free Spirits or a Drain on Society?
Every day we read lurid headlines about alcohol abuse and the consequences of binge drinking for the young at home and abroad. But a deeper look reveals a complicated picture of alcohol use in Britain...
25 Nov 201544min
Free Thinking Festival - Work Available: No Humans Need Apply
"By 2029 computers will have emotional intelligence and be as convincing as people". Ray Kurzweil, Google's Director of Engineering, predicts this scenario – also explored in Channel 4's recent hit dr...
25 Nov 201544min
Free Thinking Festival - Stage Directions
Actress Juliet Stevenson - whose work on theatre, film and TV includes Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Village and the BAFTA award winning Truly Madly Deeply – comes to Sage. She’s joined on stage by Na...
25 Nov 201544min
