麻豆约拍 Radio 4 - Free Thinking, 2014 Festival

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Turkish writer Elif Shafak joins Anne McElvoy in conversation at Sage Gateshead.

6/10 Alasdair Cochrane of Sheffield University argues that animals should have greater rights.

David Almond, Eliza Carthy and Alison Light debate working class history with Anne McElvoy

5/10 Alun Withey explains what shaving tells us about medical advances and military strategy.

4/10 Daisy Hay considers the way Benjamin Disraeli used his private life for political ends.

Historian Helen Castor and biographer Laura Thompson discuss myths, mysteries and evidence

3/10 Sophie Coulombeau explores the history of women changing their surnames when marrying.

David Willetts MP and Roger Scruton discuss how much specialist knowledge politicians need

2/10 Tom Charlton on what 17th-century ideas about censorship share with the Leveson report.

Matthew Sweet chairs a debate exploring technology's impact on cultural taste.