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Free Thinking: Blithe Spirit, Strong Leadership and Military Intervention, Brain Surgery

Blithe Spirit, Strong Leadership

18/03/2014

Blithe Spirit, Strong Leadership and Military Intervention, Brain Surgery

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Blithe Spirit, Strong Leadership and Military Intervention, Brain Surgery

Samira Ahmed discusses Blithe Spirit, military intervention and brain surgery.

Samira Ahmed presents a live edition from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre and reviews the first night of Blithe Spirit, starring Angela Lansbury.

Samira Ahmed presents a live edition from the pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre where Radio 3 is broadcasting live all day every day for the last two weeks of March.

Angela Lansbury has returned to the London stage to star in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. Free Thinking has a first night review from theatre critic Susannah Clapp and novelist Nicola Upson.

As the international community debates the ongoing situation in Ukraine and Syria, kremlinologist and historian, Archie Brown, and military expert and author, Frank Ledwidge discuss whether strong leaders undermine rather than enhance the possibility of good leadership.

Finally to the operating theatre when the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh talks about the distance between the doctor's oath to do harm and the realities of brain operations where decisions have to be taken fast and often under conditions of great uncertainty

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