Programmes and clips from the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival of ideas, 6-8 November, 2015
Catherine Fletcher on the claims that the first Medici duke of Florence was of mixed race.
Richard Dawkins discusses his memoir, Brief Candle in the Dark, at Free Thinking 2015
Clare Walker Gore on what a C19th MP without hands and feet tells us about stereotypes.
Margaret Heffernan, Matthew Syed, Cath Bishop and Christopher Frayling explore success.
A debate about drama on the page, stage, screen and in the way news stories are presented.
From Sage Gateshead, Tom Service hosts a debate about rule-breakers in classical music.
Michael Berkeley's guest is educationalist Sugata Mitra.
For Free Thinking 2015, texts and music on the theme of 'tearing up the rulebook'.
The Newcastle upon Tyne-based folk trio open Radio 3's festival of ideas.
Watch the Free Thinking Festival studio being built overnight in Gateshead
The Royal Northern Sinfonia performs music by Stravinsky, Strauss, Mozart and Shostakovich
Tom Service talks to Helmut Lachenmann who turns 80. Plus Peter Evans at Baltic 39.
Recorded at Sage Gateshead with live music from Peggy Seeger and The Wilson Family.
With soprano Elizabeth Watts and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, directed by Kyra Humphreys.
Suzy Klein at Free Thinking with Elizabeth Watts, Simon Heffer, and Bridie and the Arbour.
