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Silence

Episode 4

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

“We live in the age of noise. Silence is almost extinct.”

Adventurer Erling Kagge - the first person to reach the ‘three poles’ of North, South and the summit of Everest - explores the power of silence, considering how philosophers from Aristotle to Kant have thought about it.

Read by Cal MacAninch
Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie Show less

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