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Sweet Reason

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Evan Davis looks for reasonable ways to address the most divisive of issues.

Evan Davis presents a series in which he looks for reasonable ways to address the most divisive of issues.

Sweet Reason: Series 1

Sweet Reason: Series 1: Offence

Offence

02/08/2018

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 - Sweet Reason, Series 1, Offence

Has offence taking and victimhood gone too far?

Evan Davis and guests discuss whether we're being offended too easily and whether victimhood has gone too far.

Have we become a nation of snowflakes? All too easily offended and keen to jump on the bandwagon of victimhood, or are people being far more offensive than they used to be? 

In this episode Evan Davis talks to a group of millennials about how they feel about the snowflake label.

Studio Guests:

Jordan Peterson is an academic psychologist in Toronto, he's the author of a recent big-seller, 12 Rules for Life.

Dr Clare Chambers is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

Shaista Aziz is a journalist, writer, stand-up comedian, Labour Party politician, and an Oxford City councillor.

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