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Free Thinking - Paul Foot Award

Free Thinking - Paul Foot Award

FromArts & Ideas


Free Thinking - Paul Foot Award

FromArts & Ideas

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Feb 24, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As this year's Paul Foot Awards are announced for campaigning and investigative journalism, Anne McElvoy reports from the ceremony and talks to this year's winner. Anne also talks to the Director of the London School of Economics, the sociologist Dr Craig Calhoun about the things that inspired him to take up a career in the social sciences. The artist Alinah Azadeh talks about her latest project, two banners celebrating the 1965 Race Relations Act and the 1897 founding of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies now hanging in the Palace of Westminster with New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton.
Released:
Feb 24, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives & links between past & present and new academic research.