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Start the Week: Political Divide: Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff

05/11/2012

Political Divide: Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Political Divide: Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff

Andrew Marr with Mary Robinson, Michael Ignatieff and Amos Oz.

Andrew Marr discusses the state of politics with Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff, while Israeli writer Amos Oz asks if entrenched ideas have increasingly polarised debate.

Start the Week is at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in Gateshead to debate whether the world is becoming a more divided place. Andrew Marr discusses the state of politics with the former President of Ireland Mary Robinson and the writer-turned-politician Michael Ignatieff, while the Israeli author Amos Oz asks whether entrenched ideas have increasingly polarised debate. 
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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