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In Our Time: Politics in the 20th Century

22/10/1998

Politics in the 20th Century

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Politics in the 20th Century

Melvyn Bragg discusses politics and morality with Gore Vidal and Alan Clarke.

Melvyn Bragg talks to Gore Vidal and Alan Clark about political morality and the future of the nation state, and examines the impact of the individual on the story of the 20th century.

Melvyn Bragg talks to Gore Vidal and Alan Clarke about the future of the nation-state; is the concept dead and buried?  And what is the relationship between politics and morality - have salaciousness and self-righteousness taken over where seriousness of intent and a strong nerve left off, or was it ever thus?  With Gore Vidal, American writer, commentator and author of The Smithsonian Institution; Alan Clarke, historian, politician and author of The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-97. 

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