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The Forum: Thomas More's Utopia

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17/12/2016 GMT

Thomas More's Utopia

BBC World Service - The Forum, Thomas More's Utopia

Celebrating More's radical book and its political influence in the past and present

Celebrating Thomas More's Utopia and its political influence in the past and present. Recorded at Leuven University in Belgium.

Five-hundred years ago, in what is now the Belgian city of Leuven, Thomas More published his vision for an ideal society which he called Utopia.To mark the anniversary, The Forum travels to Leuven University to debate More's book, its place in history and the politics it inspired.

Presenter Bridget Kendall is joined by Leuven University rector Rik Torfs, culture studies professor Fátima Vieira who leads the Utopia 500 Project, historian of communism professor Erik van Ree from Amsterdam University, and Dilar Dirik, an expert on the Syrian-Kurdish ‘utopia’ of Rojava.

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