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Free Thinking: Tolerance, censorship and free speech

Tolerance, censorship and free speech

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Susan Neiman, Ursula Owen and Christopher Hampton join Anne McElvoy.

Susan Neiman on lessons from German and US history, Ursula Owen's journey from Virago to Index on Censorship and Christopher Hampton's stage version of Youth Without God.

Moral philosopher Susan Neiman studies lessons from German & US history. Ursula Owen went from Virago to Index on Censorship. Christopher Hampton has translated an Ödön von Horváth novel about the fallout from an accusation of racism.  Anne McElvoy brings them together for a conversation about tolerance, censorship and parallels between the past and the present. 

Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, Youth Without God was the last book by Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938), a German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist .  Christopher Hampton's stage version has its UK stage premiere  at the Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill London from 19 Sep–19 Oct
Susan Neiman's latest book  Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil  looks at western struggles with the legacies of racism and colonialism.  A white girl from the American South, Susan Neiman is also a Jewish woman living in Berlin and the book draws on these experiences.
Urusula Owen's parents were German Jews who fled Berlin for London. Her career has seen her work as a founder director of Virago Press and later as Chief Executive of Index on Censorship. Her memoir is called Single Journey Only. 

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