Free Thinking Essay: Scold The Front Page
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2014
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
New Generation Thinker Tom Charlton on what 17th-century ideas about censorship share with the Leveson report. Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage Gateshead. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the AHRC to find the brightest academic minds with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
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| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 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. |
| 0:50.3 | Thank you. now. On February the 20th, 1664, John Twin was arraigned at the old Bailey and found guilty of high treason. The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Robert Hyde, informed him of the judgment deemed appropriate |
| 0:56.0 | for such a crime, that you be drawn to a place of execution. And there you shall be hanged by the |
| 1:02.8 | neck. And being alive shall be cut down, and your privy members shall be cut off, and your entrails |
| 1:09.3 | shall be taken out of your body, and you living the same to be burnt before your eyes your head will be cut off your body divided into four quarters and your head and quarters to be disposed of at the pleasure of the king's majesty |
| 1:25.6 | twins crime was felt to be so heinous |
| 1:29.0 | that when he appealed to the judge for mercy, |
| 1:31.9 | Hyde retorted that he would not intercede |
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