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The Cultural State

on BBC Radio 4 FM

New series 1/5. John Wilson begins a series charting the relationship between the British government and the nation's cultural life since the 1940s.
Death to Hollywood! Churchill's government wanted to remind the British people what exactly they were fighting for in the early 1940s - so they sent classical music, ballet, theatre and artworks to arms factories across the land. And who was the man in charge of this cultural mobilisation? Britain's leading economist:
John Maynard Keynes. Producer Laurence Grissell Repeated at 9.30pm

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John Wilson
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John Maynard Keynes.
Producer:
Laurence Grissell

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