Free Thinking - Antonia Fraser

Arts & Ideas

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Lady Antonia Fraser talks to Matthew Sweet about her childhood in Oxford and London in the 30s and 40s, her lifelong fascination with history, and her forthcoming book, My History: A Memoir of Growing Up. Academics Susan Neiman and Robert Pogue Harrison discuss our modern day obsession with youth. And as a major retrospective of the late French director, Eric Rohmer, begins at the British Film Institute, critics Jonathan Romney and Ginette Vincendeau look at the auteur's fascination with characters in the summer of their lives.

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0:00.0	Can I just say?
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0:08.8	Different paces, different heights.
0:10.6	The roof is buckling.
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0:14.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:16.6	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
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.
0:29.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.8	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:34.6	We begin tonight's program with the proposition from Cliff Richard.
0:38.9	The young ones, darling with the young ones, and the young ones shouldn't be afraid to live love
0:55.6	while the flame is strong
0:59.3	because we may not be the young ones
1:02.9	very long
1:04.5	Oh but he's wrong
1:05.9	wrong wrong wrong
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