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Free Thinking: Plants and The Black Panthers

Plants and The Black Panthers

20/10/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Plants and The Black Panthers

Matthew Sweet with The Invention of Nature, The Cabaret of Plants and The Black Panthers.

Matthew Sweet is joined by Andrea Wulf and Richard Mabey to talk Plants and Humboldt. Plus Stanley Nelson on his new documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.

Matthew Sweet talks to Richard Mabey about his new book The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination and hears how so much of our history has been driven by our discovery and exploitation of their properties but it's time to put our own human social preoccupations aside. Joining them, Andrea Wulf presents her findings on the extraordinary scientist Alexander von Humboldt, a seminal figure in human attempts to understand nature.
And it was nearly fifty years ago that The Black Panther Party was founded. Stanley Nelson, director of a new documentary history, Vanguard of the Revolution and Mohammed Mubarak, one of the movements official photographers join Matthew to discuss the Black Panthers' role in a political awakening for black Americans and their impact on wider American culture.

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