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The Reith Lectures

Jacques Darras - Beyond The Tunnel of History

Towards the Light

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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French poet Jacques Darras delivers his final Reith Lecture from his series entitled 'Beyond the Tunnel of History'.

In his fifth and final Reith Lecture entitled 'Towards the Light', Jacques Darras finds a clue to our shared European future in an early cross-Channel cultural interaction: the 'School of Light'. The school was established by Irish monks in the medieval city of Laon and Jacque Darras explains that learning from the past will allow us to create a unified Europe.
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