A Brief History of the Truth
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It's time to travel down the rabbit hole of truth as American satirist Joe Queenan explores a murky world of fake news, prejudice and alternative facts. "Recent politics have shown that the truth is no fun," he explains. "It's like a vegetable your mother makes you eat. Yes it may be nourishing, but it tastes terrible." With archive contributions from Donald Trump, Doris Lessing, Jeremy Corbyn, Peter Mandelson and Theresa May; plus new interviews with Mark Borkowski, Edith Hall and Julian Baggini, author of a Short History of Truth. This is Joe Queenan's follow up to previous editions on Blame, Shame, Irony and Anger.
The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:39.0 | I want the American people. |
| 0:41.0 | I want you to know beyond the shadow of a doubt that during my term as president |
| 0:48.6 | justice will be pursued fairly, fully, and impartially, no matter who is involved. |
| 0:59.5 | The truth, it's a funny old thing, and whether it's alternative facts, post truths or falsehoods, |
| 1:07.0 | I'm sure I don't have to tell you how hotly debated it's become recently. |
| 1:12.0 | But the truth's always been subjective to some |
| 1:15.3 | degree and it's something we've been seeking for well pretty much forever. |
| 1:20.0 | The first people who ever said in Vino Veritas but they said it in Greek |
| 1:25.6 | were the ancient Greeks is a poet called Al Seats in the 7th century BC |
| 1:30.0 | says that if you really want to know you know who's been sleeping with your wife then you give |
| 1:34.3 | somebody enough to drink. |
| 1:36.8 | I'm Riana Dylan. |
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