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  1. Audience Choice

    5/5Why the medieval monk the Venerable Bede is the great Free Thinker of the North East.

  2. Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society

    4/5Poet Sean O'Brien on Newcastle's Literary and Philosophical Society or Lit and Phil.

  3. William Armstrong

    3/5Henrietta Heald on the achievements of inventor and industrialist William Armstrong.

  4. Gertrude Bell

    2/5Kitty Fitzgerald on the life of Gertrude Bell, author of the 1921 map of modern Iraq.

  5. T Dan Smith

    1/5Graeme Rigby discusses T Dan Smith, former leader of Newcastle City Council.