Free Thinking - Community & The Human Figure
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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The director of the Hayward Ralph Rugoff, former principal Royal Ballet dancer Deborah Bull and neuroscientist Professor Patrick Haggard explore presentations of and research into the human body. And what is the meaning of 'community' with philosopher and writer Julian Baggini, journalist and historian Tim Stanley and writer Ziauddin Sardar. Plus Preti Taneja, one of the 2014 Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers, on the female casting of King Lear.
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| 0:40.8 | On tonight's programme, Bodies, literal and metaphorical litter the studio. |
| 0:46.6 | As a new exhibition on sculpture and the human figure opens, |
| 0:50.0 | we bring together a neuroscientist, a dancer, and a curator, |
| 0:53.6 | to discuss how we understand the body in our lives and in the arts. |
| 0:58.5 | And our new generation thinker, Preeti Tanajar, |
| 1:02.2 | reflects on a new production of Kingley of that play |
| 1:05.1 | where we are all no more than a poor, bare-forked animal. |
| 1:10.2 | Here, nature, here, dear goddess, here. |
| 1:15.5 | Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful. |
| 1:21.7 | Into her womb conveys sterility. |
| 1:25.4 | Dry up in her the organs of increase, and from her derogant body never spring a babe to honour her. |
| 1:34.1 | A female, Leah, in Phil Wilmott's production on at the Union Theatre now and more on this later. |
| 1:39.4 | But we begin with a metaphorical body, the community. |
| 1:44.3 | Listen to the news over the last few days |
| 1:46.1 | and it's been the Muslim community evoked in the story |
| 1:49.3 | about alleged extremism in Birmingham schools. |
| 1:52.3 | Listen, over the last few years |
| 1:54.1 | and the decimation of working class, |
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