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Hello, this is Philip Dodd with tonight's free thinking. Virginia Woolf speaks of that great

cathedral space, which was childhood. Well, it's always been such a space, but also one full of voices, often noisy and quarrelsome.

The law and experts want to define childhood for us.

Politicians argue over how a happy childhood can offer life opportunities,

and writers and filmmakers imagine childhood for us.

Free thinking this evening fixes on childhood and comes live

from the Roll Festival Hall in London, where this week and next Radio 3 is in residence.

Tonight, after George Osborne's budget speech, rejig tax and welfare, we explore that state

on which one way or another were all experts.

After all, we've all passed through childhood, whether happily or not.

We'll explore who owns and shapes our childhood,

the family, educationalists and other experts,

the state are all those artists who colonise it with their books and films.

Joining me, a Frank Field Labour MP for Birkenhead,

developing strategies at present to alleviate the disadvantages of early childhood poverty.

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