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Free Thinking: Suicide; black British actors; Roma; audio games

Suicide; black British actors; Roma; audio games

21/01/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Suicide; black British actors; Roma; audio games

Matthew Sweet explores the sound of gaming and the way we talk about suicide.

Jennifer Michael Hecht talks to Matthew Sweet about the way society talks about suicide. Plus sound designer Nick Ryan on his approach to creating audio-only video games.

Coronation Street is running a storyline about assisted suicide. Is there a growing suicidal nihilism that leads certain sections of society to see suicide as a valid response to life? Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of 'Stay - A history of suicide and the philosophies against it,' is in discussion with Matthew Sweet.
Audio only video games are on the increase. Sound designer Nick Ryan explains his approach to creating them and gamer and novelist Naomi Alderman reflects on the sound world they create.
Writers Adam Gopnik and Louise Doughty discuss attitudes to Romani people in France and the UK.
As Culture Minister Ed Vaizey prepares to meet some of Britain's leading black actors to discuss what is preventing them being given more tv and stage roles we hear the views of actress Adjoa Andoh.

Producer: Natalie Steed.

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