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A Point of View: Protagonists of Reality

03/05/2024

Protagonists of Reality

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Megan Nolan on New York as the Main Character Syndrome capital of the world.

Megan Nolan reflects from New York on the Trump trial and the irresistible nature of stories where ordinary people are thrust into the centre of the world's attention.

Megan Nolan on the allure of New York and the city's 'main character' syndrome. 

The city is, she says, 'the place that makes me happier to be alive than anywhere else - not in spite but because of its thoroughly human hopelessness.'

'Nature is nature, permanent and without moral taint,' writes Megan, 'but cities are paeans to the marvellous filth of the human spirit.'

'The real challenge is being moved by the effort to remain open to one another despite being consoled by surroundings made not of beauty and relief, but of cement and strife.' 

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher 
Production coordinator: Liam Morrey 
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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