All we need is love

Arts & Ideas

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

From classical thinking to the romcom films in cinema today: Why do we yearn to find our "other half" but struggle with the reality of long term relationships? To discuss Rana Mitter is joined by: Dr Susie Orbach: a psychotherapist and author of Fat is a Feminist Issue as well as many other books Classicist Prof Armand D'Angour: he has just published a book about Plato's thinking on love - How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers Dr Vittoria Fallanca: She has new research on the opposite figure to Eros - Anteros - the god of requited love, and the avenger of unrequited love, and his place in the history of philosophy Catherine Wheatley: She is Professor of Film and Visual Culture at Kings College London Mary Harrod: She is Professor of French and Screen Studies at the University of Warwick.

Producer: Lisa Jenkinson

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0:00.0	Can I just say?
0:01.5	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
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0:14.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
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0:21.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:25.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:26.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:29.7	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:35.8	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:39.3	I'm Rana Mitter, and this is the Arts and Ideas podcast.
0:42.8	Tonight, Freethinkers, Studio 80A turns into the Love Shack.
0:47.2	Or, if that sounds a bit low rent, let's make it the Palazzo Damore,
0:51.5	even if that sounds a little bit like a discount pizza parlor. Because
0:55.4	it's Valentine's Day and around the world people have been swapping candy hearts, sniffing
1:00.6	bunches of roses and enjoying cards with anonymized verses that are unlikely to trouble the late
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