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01/12/2012 GMT

The individual and society

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The Forum @ RSA in London with Margaret Atwood.

The third in a series of five special programmes, presented by eminent global thinkers, about the big challenges of our age.

Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood and guests join a live audience at RSA in London to explore the sometimes tense and at other times inspiring relationship between the individual and society. How do we strike a balance between personal desires and the wider needs of society? And how is this relationship changing in an increasingly globalised world? On the panel: American sociologist and director of the London School of Economics Craig Calhoun, Kenyan psychiatrist and mental health campaigner Frank Njenga and Chinese writer and film-maker Sun Shuyun. Illustration by Emily Kasriel.

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