Speechification » Free Thinking http://speechification.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Marina Warner’s Free Thought http://speechification.com/2008/08/19/marina-warners-free-thought/ http://speechification.com/2008/08/19/marina-warners-free-thought/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:57:45 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://speechification.com/?p=320 On Radio 3 they're having a sort of Summer season of short essays from 100 clever and/or important people. It's all part of a real festival called Free Thinking that takes place in Liverpool at the end of October. In her contribution Marina Warner talks about the commodification of art and concludes (in two minutes flat) that the visual arts are less commodified than writing. Clever and persuasive. The other essays are all here. Contributors include: Phil Redmond, Stuart Maconie, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Germaine Greer and quite a lot of very interesting people I've never heard of (MP3).

Worth noting too that Radio 3 will most likely chuck the whole lot away once the festival is finished since that seems to be standard practice with the station's speech output: especially scandalous behaviour when you consider that this cerebral stuff must have a residual value of close to zero. Write to your MP or something.

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