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Start the Week: Hedonism

Hedonism

22/12/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Hedonism

Tom Sutcliffe discusses hedonism with Greg Doran, Julia Twigg, Zoe Cormier and Kurt Lampe.

Tom Sutcliffe discusses hedonism with RSC artistic director Greg Doran, sociologist Julia Twigg, science writer Zoe Cormier and Classics lecturer Kurt Lampe.

Tom Sutcliffe discusses hedonism, from the ultra-hedonists in ancient Greece to the seasonal impulse to indulge. Tom's joined by RSC artistic director Greg Doran who's looking at hedonism in Shakespeare, from Toby Belch to Falstaff; by Prof Julia Twigg who assesses hedonism and asceticism in the contemporary world; by writer Zoe Cormier who's explored the science of hedonism and the hedonism of science; and by Kurt Lampe from Bristol University on the philosophical hedonists of Cyrene, an ancient city in modern day Libya.

Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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