Free Thinking - Eroticism & Utopia

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Dylan Evans tells Matthew Sweet about his experimental community in the Scottish Highlands and why the Utopia Experiment failed. They are joined by Elaine Barker who has looked at communities set up by religious cults and Joe Duggan of Transition Town in Crystal Palace. Also our changing attitudes to eroticism on film. In the week when the release of the film Fifty Shades of Grey is causing much excitment Matthew discusses prudishness and prurience in British cinema with film historian Melanie Williams, sexploitation screen writer David McGillivray and documentary maker Kim Longinotto.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps
0:21.2	that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream
0:26.1	van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.
0:32.0	On tonight's free thinking, we take you to paradise, to those utopian societies conceived by visionary thinkers through the ages,
0:39.4	and to the nudist camp to which Sid James and Bernard Bresselaw brought their fig leaves in
0:43.9	carry-on camping. Here's something to get you in the mood.
0:47.3	It's just beyond this door.
0:48.8	What is?
0:49.8	My playroom.
0:51.9	Like your Xbox and stuff?
0:54.0	It's important that you know you can leave at any time.
0:56.7	Why? What's in there?
0:58.0	I meant what I said.
0:59.8	The helicopter's on standby to take you whenever you want to go.
1:02.4	Could you just open the door?
1:08.2	Oh my God.
1:11.6	Tell me, Vera. What do you feel like?
1:14.6	A bit of the other.
1:16.6	Bit of the other.
1:18.6	Vera. Here, let's go. Let go.
1:22.6	Oh, I love you, John.
1:24.6	Vera, Vera, will you please get off?
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