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The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

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Asne Seierstad

Ella-mai Robey

Free Thinking: Tom McCarthy, Asne Seierstad, Fairness

Fairness, Tom McCarthy

12/03/2015

Tom McCarthy, Asne Seierstad, Fairness

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Tom McCarthy, Asne Seierstad, Fairness

With novelist Tom McCarthy, journalist Asne Seierstad and what is the idea of fairness.

Anne McElvoy asks what we mean by the idea of fairness. Plus novelist Tom McCarthy on his new work Satin Island and Asne Seierstad on her book about the Breivik massacre in Norway.

Anne McElvoy looks at what we mean by the idea of fairness. She also talks to novelist Tom McCarthy who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel C. His new work Satin Island follows a man working for a consultancy trying to sum up our age - who wonders whether there is a logic which holds the world together. Plus Norwegian investigative journalist Åsne Seierstad on the story of Anders Breivik.

Tom McCarthy's novel Satin Island is out now. 
One of Us: the Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad is out now.

Producer: Ella-mai Robey.

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