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Series of thought-provoking talks on topics that affect culture and society.

Series of thought-provoking talks in which the speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect culture and society

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Four Thought: Series 1: Episode 2: Peter Hennessy: On Joining the Constitution

Peter Hennessy: On Joining the Constitution

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Episode 2: Peter Hennessy: On Joining the Constitution

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BBC Radio 4 - Four Thought, Series 1, Peter Hennessy: On Joining the Constitution

Peter Hennessy discusses joining the constitution, after a lifetime writing about it.

Peter Hennessy discusses joining the British constitution, after a lifetime spent writing about it. At a time of constitutional upheaval, what can the second house still offer?

Historian Peter Hennessy discusses joining what he has spent a lifetime writing about: the British constitution.

At a time of constitutional upheaval, what does the second house still provide? He argues that expertise, in rare supply elsewhere in the political system, is abundant in the Lords, and offers a great deal to a system currently held in low esteem.

Four Thought combines big ideas and evocative storytelling in a series of personal viewpoints - speakers take to the stage ready to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and society.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

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