Free Thinking - Cities & Resilience
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
New Generation Thinker Daisy Hay talks to Anne McElvoy about the relationship between Disraeli and his wife. Judith Rodin discusses cities and disaster planning with Ricky Burdett. Glass artist Brian Clarke outlines the role played by the art dealer Robert Fraser who showcased the work of emerging American and European artists from the 60s onwards. Fraser hosted avant garde art openings and supported artists including Jean Michel Basquiat, Gilbert and George, Bridget Riley and Eduardo Paolozzi.
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| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello, our cities can be big and mean, but when they're hit by financial turmoil or natural disaster, |
| 0:39.0 | are they strong and resilient? As the World Economic Forum continues in Davos, I'll be talking |
| 0:44.3 | to the author of a new book on how metropolises can bounce back from trouble. The strange romance |
| 0:49.9 | of Benjamin Disraeli and his partner Mary Ann, and how an unlikely pair became the ultimate |
| 0:55.0 | power couple of 19th century England, and the hell-raising art dealer who made the 60s swing. |
| 1:01.1 | The rather grim scenes of Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser appearing handcuffed together at the Chichester |
| 1:06.1 | Court this morning are surely an unnecessary humiliation. |
| 1:10.1 | Robert Fraser, feeling the long arm of the law with his mucker Mick Jagger, |
| 1:14.0 | more on the colourful life of the pioneering art dealer later. |
| 1:18.1 | Just before the World Economic Forum got going at Davos this week, |
| 1:22.1 | the Global Risks Report was published looking at looming long-term risks across the world. |
| 1:27.7 | It outlined the dangers international conflicts posed to world security, |
| 1:31.9 | the impact of cybercrime, and a shift away from economic risks in general |
| 1:36.0 | to environmental ones, ranging from climate change to water crises. |
| 1:40.9 | There wasn't much optimism on offer. |
| 1:43.1 | Slow-burning environmental issues, it said, were |
| 1:45.6 | making strikingly little progress, with detrimental consequences for this and future generations. |
| 1:51.8 | It's enough to make us wonder where new answers might come from. Well, Judith Rodin, the American |
| 1:56.9 | President of the Rockefeller Foundation and author of a new book was in London at the |
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