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Tom Sutcliffe

Mary Beard

Mark Ravenhill

John Gray

Natalia Fernandez

Start the Week: Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard

Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard

01/04/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard

Tom Sutcliffe with James Lasdun, Mary Beard, Mark Ravenhill and John Gray.

Tom Sutcliffe discusses the 'myth' of progress with James Lasdun, Mary Beard, Mark Ravenhill and John Gray.

On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe discusses the 'myth' of progress with James Lasdun, Mary Beard, Mark Ravenhill and John Gray.

The poet and novelist James Lasdun talks about his experience of being cyber-stalked and the terrifying opportunities new technology offers. Mary Beard looks back to classical times to see how far the relationship between persecutor and persecuted have changed.

Playwright Mark Ravenhill discusses his comic reworking of Voltaire's 'Candide'. But is everything in the 21st century still for 'the best in the best of all possible worlds?' John Gray argues that ethical progress in human civilisation is easily reversible and yet people need to believe in myths to shape their lives and give them meaning.


Producer: Natalia Fernandez.

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