Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello, I'm Ron Amitter. |
| 0:34.7 | If you can set an entire city on fire in wartime, should you do it? |
| 0:40.3 | This is the stark dilemma I'm discussing with Thinker for Our Times, Malcolm Gladwell. |
| 0:45.1 | And as we look to Earth Day, novelist Jesse Greengrass and new generation thinker Sarah |
| 0:49.3 | Gillani talk to me about the point where art and climate change come together. |
| 0:54.9 | That's after this word. |
| 1:01.1 | Sound of Gaming, the monthly show from BBC Radio 3, |
| 1:05.3 | which opens up the incredible world of gaming music. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm Louise Blaine, and every month I'll be featuring some of the very best gaming scores, |
| 1:15.7 | offering insights into how the music works with the gameplay, talking to composers about how they |
| 1:21.0 | set about creating their scores. I've classic tracks, I've also got the latest new releases. |
| 1:28.3 | Subscribe to Sound of Gaming on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:33.3 | Hello, I hope you're feeling the joys of spring, because we're marking Earth Day, the moment we take to reflect on the rise of the modern environmental movement. |
| 1:43.3 | If the colour that mattered most in the social and political debates of the mid-20th century |
| 1:48.0 | was often red or white, communism, clashing with capitalism, |
| 1:52.0 | well these days the shade that matters most seems to be green. |
| 1:55.0 | And later, I'll be talking to prize-winning novelist Jesse Greengrass |
| 1:59.0 | about her new book, The High House, |
| 2:01.5 | which provides a chilling insight into what might happen if the climate crisis isn't dealt with. |
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