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Start the Week: National Identity with Maajid Nawaz and Sir Christopher Meyer.

02/07/2012

National Identity with Maajid Nawaz and Sir Christopher Meyer.

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, National Identity with Maajid Nawaz and Sir Christopher Meyer.

Andrew Marr with Maajid Nawaz, Robert Chesshyre, Elizabeth Truss and Christopher Meyer.

Andrew Marr talks with the counter-extremism activist Maajid Nawaz, the former ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer, the MP Elizabeth Truss and the journalist Robert Chesshyre.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to Maajid Nawaz about his journey from Islamist extremist to a champion of democracy. Growing up in Britain in the 1980s Nawaz found his sense of identity in political Islam. National identity and the state of the nation is at the heart of Robert Chesshyre's book in which he argues that the roots of many of today's problems, especially the increase in inequality, were planted under Margaret Thatcher's leadership. But one of the new intake of Conservative MPs, dubbed the 'New Radicals', Elizabeth Truss, looks to an alternative future where "decline is not inevitable." And the former ambassador, Sir Christopher Meyer, turns his attention to the rich and powerful across the world, to see how different power networks operate.

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