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5/5 Why the medieval monk the Venerable Bede is the great Free Thinker of the North East.

Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society
4/5 Poet Sean O'Brien on Newcastle's Literary and Philosophical Society or Lit and Phil.

William Armstrong
3/5 Henrietta Heald on the achievements of inventor and industrialist William Armstrong.

Gertrude Bell
2/5 Kitty Fitzgerald on the life of Gertrude Bell, author of the 1921 map of modern Iraq.

T Dan Smith
1/5 Graeme Rigby discusses T Dan Smith, former leader of Newcastle City Council.