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Free Thinking Lecture

Phil Redmond, the man behind Grange Hill and Brookside, delivers the annual Free Thinking Lecture in front of an audience in the Victorian splendour of Liverpool's St Georges Hall.

Phil Redmond, the man behind Grange Hill and Brookside, delivers the annual Free Thinking Lecture in front of an audience in the Victorian splendour of Liverpool's St Georges Hall, and launches Free Thinking 07, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3's festival of ideas.

The television drama pioneer is one of the city's leading voices on the creative, media and technological future and the theme of his lecture is the competing political and cultural forces redefining our personal identities, as he asks 'Whose Identity is it Anyway?'.

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Fri 9 Nov 2007 21:45

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  • Fri 9 Nov 2007 21:45

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