Summary
A silent room and a design to encourage disobedience are amongst the exhibits that Matthew Sweet and Laurence Scott visit at the London Design Biennale as they consider the role of Design in the week the V&A opens a new museum in Dundee. New Generation Thinker Kylie Murray talks about her discoveries of scribblings in the margins of books and what they tell us about Dundee's connections with France in late medieval times. Plus film critic Peter Biskind explores the effect of superhero and zombie movies on the American psyche.
The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids and Superheroes Made America Great For Extremism by Peter Biskind is out now. Laurence Scott is the author of Picnic, Comma, Lightning: In Search of a New Reality; The Four Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World. Kylie Murray is a Fellow, Lecturer, and Director of Studies in English at Christ’s College, Cambridge whose research specialism is the literature of Medieval and Early-Modern Scotland, c.1100-c.1625 in Scots, French, and Latin
The London Design Biennale runs until September 23rd. The V&A in Dundee designed by Kengo Kuma opens with a 3D Festival this weekend. Design Research for Change is a showcase of 67 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Design research projects at Truman Brewery, London from 20th – 23rd September 2018.
Producer: Craig Smith
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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 |
| 0:21.2 | it. It's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. So, you've succumbed. |
| 0:33.9 | You heard the arts and ideas podcast calling to you like that pie in the fridge. |
| 0:39.4 | Well, my name's Matthew Sweet and I'm here to tell you that really there's no need to feel guilty. |
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| 0:54.6 | It's amazing how many recordings you can find these days of a favourite piece of classical |
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| 1:38.5 | That's what the writer Lauren Scott did today, ran all over Somerset House, |
| 1:45.0 | where he and I encountered new work by designers from all over the world, and we inhaled. |
| 1:48.3 | Well, that's opium as a grassiness to it, isn't there? |
| 1:55.2 | I'm not getting anything. I might go lower down for where the children come to sniff the opium. |
| 2:01.1 | Yes, yes, grassiness is right. |
| 2:06.4 | More scratch and sniff culture from the London design Biennale later in the programme. |
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