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Azar Nafisi, Roger Penrose and Jack Zipes challenge each other on their ideas.

THE FORUM, the ideas programme presented by BRIDGET KENDALL.

Iranian author AZAR NAFISI explores the power and ambiguity of silence in her latest family memoir.  
Cosmologist ROGER PENROSE explains why the universe both begins and ends with Big Bangs.
And scholar JACK ZIPES decodes the DNA of fairy tales to explain their stickability.

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