Fearing and Loving: Making Sense of the Warrior

The Reith Lectures

BBC

Society & Culture, Science, Government, Technology

4.2 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Historian Margaret MacMillan asks why both men and women go to war. "We are both fascinated and repulsed by war and those who fight," she says. In this lecture, recorded at York University, she explores looks at the role of the warrior in history and culture and analyses how warriors are produced. And she interrogates the differences that gender plays in war. Anita Anand presents the programme recorded in front of an audience, including a question and answer session.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Nicola Cocklin.
0:02.8	Young people have been making history for years, but we don't often hear about them.
0:06.6	My brand new series on BBC Sounds sets out to put this right.
0:10.6	In history's youngest heroes, I'll be revealing the fascinating stories of 12 young people
0:16.0	who've played a major role in history and who've helped shape our world.
0:19.8	Like Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela,
0:22.5	Louis Braille and Lady Jane Grey, history's youngest heroes with me, Nicola Cochlin. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:30.4	Hello, I'm Margaret Macmillan and in my Rees lectures, I'm exploring the relationship between
0:35.0	humanity and war. In this second podcast in the series,
0:39.6	I'm looking at those who actually fight,
0:41.9	the warriors.
0:43.2	What makes them?
0:44.5	What do they feel?
0:45.9	What happens to them?
0:51.3	Hello and welcome to York University for the second of this year's Reith Lectures by the historian Margaret Macmillan.
1:03.6	Now, in this series, the Mark of Kane, Margaret has been examining the complex relationship that we as humans have with war, the impact that it has
1:13.5	on us personally and on our culture. And she began by asking if war is an essential part of being
1:21.0	human. Now we're going to take a look at something a little closer, the individual who fights, making sense of the warrior.
1:30.5	So please do give a very warm welcome to the wreath lecturer for 2018, Professor Margaret Macmillan. Thank you.
1:53.0	In March 1461, as I probably don't need to tell people who live here in York,
1:58.0	the Battle of Tauton was fought just about 10 miles southeast of here,
2:03.1	possibly the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on British soil. More than 50,000 soldiers,
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