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Free Thinking: Violence in Culture

Violence in Culture

15/04/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Violence in Culture

Frances Fyfield, Richard Bessel, Peter Stanford and Mayura Deshpande join Philip Dodd.

Philip Dodd considers violence in culture with crime writer Frances Fyfield, historian Professor Richard Bessel, forensic psychiatrist Mayura Deshpande and writer Peter Stanford.

With a raft of new books being published, Philip Dodd considers violence in culture and our relationship with it. His guests are crime writer and former barrister Frances Fyfield, Professor of Twentieth Century History at University of York Richard Bessel, Forensic Psychiatrist Mayura Deshpande, and the writer Peter Stanford.

Producer: Ella-mai Robey

Violence: A Modern Obsession by Richard Bessel is published 23 April 2015
Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle by Peter Stanford is out now
Casting the First Stone by Frances Fyfield is available in paperback.

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