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Series of thought-provoking talks on topics that affect culture and society.

Series of thought-provoking talks in which the speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect culture and society

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Four Thought: Series 3

Four Thought: Series 3: Episode 30: James Friel: In Praise of the Single Life

James Friel: In Praise of the Single Life

Episode 30

Episode 30: James Friel: In Praise of the Single Life

Series 3

BBC Radio 4 - Four Thought, Series 3, James Friel: In Praise of the Single Life

James Friel defends the values and virtues of the single life.

Novelist James Friel defends the value and virtues of the single life against the widespread cultural view that being in a couple is a superior state of existence.

Novelist James Friel, author of "The Posthumous Affair", defends the value and virtues of the single life against the widespread cultural view that being in a couple is a superior state of being. 

Four Thought is a series of talks offering a personal viewpoint recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in London. 

Producer: Sheila Cook.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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