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Homo Ludens Beatlensis

on Network Three

A suggestion for a new language game by Michael Redmond Mullin

We are familiar with a sound of beatles crying 'Help,' but long before their song Ludwig Wittgenstein had described philosophy's aim as showing the fly the way out of the fly bottle. Michael Redmond Mullin reflects on the relation between the philosopher and Richard Lester's presentation of the pop idols; a relation which he locates neither on the plane of solemnity, nor on that of frivolity, but in the universe of play.
(Second broadcast)

followed by an interlude at 10.50

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Michael Redmond Mullin

Network Three

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