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Start the Week: Austerity: Antony Gormley, David Kynaston and Anna Coote

09/01/2012

Austerity: Antony Gormley, David Kynaston and Anna Coote

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Austerity: Antony Gormley, David Kynaston and Anna Coote

Andrew Marr is joined by Antony Gormley, David Kynaston, Anna Coote and Fintan O'Toole.

Andrew Marr begins the new year with a focus on austerity. Including artist Antony Gormley, historian David Kynaston, academic Anna Coote and journalist Fintan O'Toole.

On Start the Week, Andrew Marr begins the new year with a look at austerity. Anna Coote argues that it's time to embrace a new set of values that are not dependent on high rolling consumerism and, as unemployment rises, to share out the working hours more evenly. The great chronicler of Austerity Britain of the fifties, David Kynaston, explores whether there are any lessons to be learnt from earlier decades of thrift and dissent. The artist Antony Gormley discusses a new collaboration in which he explores the idea of survival in a world in which we are bombarded with information but have very little direct control. And Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times columnist, looks at at how Ireland is dealing with its 5th austerity budget and asks if there are lessons we can learn from the fate of the Celtic Tiger.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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