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Start the Week: Britain Divided: 1642-2016

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13/03/2017

Britain Divided: 1642-2016

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Britain Divided: 1642-2016

Andrew Marr with David Goodhart, Oliver Letwin, Erica Benner and Richard Bean.

Cultural discussion programme. Andrew Marr discusses political conflict with David Goodhart, Oliver Letwin, Erica Benner and Richard Bean.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the future of politics with David Goodhart and Oliver Letwin MP. In his latest book Goodhart looks at the fractious state of the west and the rise of populism, while Oliver Letwin asks what the government can do to reach those who feel marginalised. 

The playwright Richard Bean reaches back to another time of internal conflict, the beginning of the English Civil War, and finds humour in the desperate attempts of one man to retain power. 

Machiavelli is always associated with unscrupulous scheming, but his latest biographer Erica Benner argues that he was a man devoted to political and human freedom. 

Producer: Katy Hickman

IMAGE: Rowan Polonski as Prince Rupert and Martin Barrass as Mayor Barnard in The Hypocrite by Richard Bean, a Hull Truck, Hull 2017 and RSC co-production. Photograph by Duncan Lomax (c) RSC.

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