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Start the Week: 23/05/2011

23/05/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, 23/05/2011

Sherard Cowper-Coles, Richard Norton-Taylor, Angie Hobbs and David Pryce-Jones.

Andrew Marr with former British Ambassador to Afghanistan Sherard Cowper-Coles, journalist Richard Norton-Taylor, philosopher Angie Hobbs and writer David Pryce-Jones.

Andrew Marr talks to the former British ambassador, Sherard Cowper-Coles, about the failures of Western policy in Afghanistan, and how diplomacy would have been a better option than the gun. In 2003 Baha Mousa was arrested by the British Army in Basra, in Iraq. Two days later he was dead. Richard Norton-Taylor sifts through all the evidence to bring the public inquiry into his death to the stage. David Pryce-Jones asks what motivates those who take up foreign causes, to the detriment of their own country, in Treason of the Heart. And the philosopher Angie Hobbs turns to the Greek Gods to untangle modern ideas of heroism and bravery.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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