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Free Thinking: Man Booker Prize, Sherlock Holmes, Plato and Aristotle

Man Booker Prize, Sherlock Holmes, Plato and Aristotle

14/10/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Man Booker Prize, Sherlock Holmes, Plato and Aristotle

Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet discuss Sherlock Holmes. Plus the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

With Matthew Sweet. Including a new exhibition about Sherlock Holmes and a live report from the 2014 Man Booker Prize ceremony, plus the relevance today of Plato and Aristotle.

Sherlock Holmes is investigated by Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet as the Museum of London opens an exhibition. Literary critic Alex Clark gives her verdict as the Man Booker Prize is announced. Also the relevance of Plato and Aristotle to contemporary life are debated by the American novelist and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Armand Leroi, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College, London.

Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Who Will Never Die is at the Museum of London from October 17th - April 12th 2015.

Rebecca Newburger Goldstein's book is called Plato At The Googleplex and Why Philosophy Still Matters
Armand Marie Leroi's book is called The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

Producer: Fiona McLean.

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