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  1. 26 Nov 2009 21:15 –22:00 BBC Radio 3 Night Waves
    Free Thinking 2009, Michael Brearley: Narcissism and Leadership
    Psychoanalyst Michael Brearley delivers a talk about the nature of leadership.
  2. 28 Nov 2009 18:00 –20:20 BBC Radio 3 Opera on 3
    Peter Maxwell Davies: Taverner
    Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC SSO and tenor Daniel Norman in Maxwell Davies's Taverner.
  3. 29 Nov 2009 20:00 –22:00 BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
    The Changeling
    Murder, lust, madness and mayhem in a Jacobean classic set in 1920s Spain.
  4. 3 Dec 2009 21:15 –22:00 BBC Radio 3 Night Waves
    Free Thinking 2009, Free Thinking - The Future of Men
    A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead for men.

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