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Hello, we're rolling up our sleeves among the flora and fauna on freethinking tonight,

for some of the program at least. Anna Paveord has been casting an expert gardener's eye over the painting the modern garden exhibition,

just opened at London's Royal Academy. New generation thinker Peter Mackay will be adding his thoughts

on contemporary Scottish landscape writing and also

contrasting the influence of the folk tradition on Irish and Scottish poetry.

But first on free-thinking recently, we've been looking at what sort of spaces university

should be, exploring no platforming and free speech. So we turn first to Oxford University,

where the statue of Cecil Rhodes on Oriel College's High Street frontage

has been the subject of controversy

since the launch of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign last year.

The notion that Cecil Rhodes should be unreflexively glorified in a 21st century setting in 2016, we think is no longer tolerable.

And we think that his legacy should be challenged.

And the anesthetization of history that's continued at Oxford up to this point should be debated.

And that's exactly what we're doing.

Co-founder of the campaign, Cizwe Mipofu Walsh there, speaking on the Today program earlier this

month after the Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patton, announced that there was no question

of the statue being removed and if the protesters didn't demonstrate a generosity of spirit towards history and respect

for the principle of free speech, well, they should think about being educated elsewhere.

Strong words, but the issue of how today's academic institutions address and acknowledge

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