Free Thinking 2013 - Power to the People
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2013
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Social media allows us to make our views known quickly but where does this public pressure and the increasing emphasis on "choice" and "consultation" leave professional expertise and political instinct? Anne McElvoy chairs a panel at the Free Thinking Festival of Ideas, including the founder of the Renewal campaign David Skelton, the columnist David Aaronovitch and Dame Julie Moore, Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham. Recorded on Saturday 26th October 2013 in front of a live audience at Sage Gateshead.
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| 0:34.5 | This is a special download from the BBC Freethinking Festival. For more information and our |
| 0:39.7 | terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. Power to the people has long been a |
| 0:46.6 | revolutionary slogan, but it's also become a quest which has pervaded political debate in the last |
| 0:52.1 | few years. How do we devolve more power away from the world of ministers and mandarins |
| 0:57.5 | to people who know their own local circumstances |
| 1:00.3 | and would like to control more of what goes on in their lives and in their name? |
| 1:05.2 | It's a challenge which runs through current thinking on improving public services |
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