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A History of Human Folly

on BBC Radio 4 FM

1/4. Group Think. Why did the Trojan rulers insist on dragging that suspicious-looking wooden horse inside their walls despite every reason to suspect a Greek trick? Francis Wheen examines the perennial tendency of politicians, scientists and others in authority to act perversely and how, when more rational alternatives are clearly present, the best and brightest can blithely march into colossal blunders. Producer Jolyon Jenkins

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Francis Wheen
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