Free Thinking - Global Crisis
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4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Anne McElvoy talks to the historian Geoffrey Parker about Global Crisis, his influential game-changing account of the political and social upheavals which characterised the Seventeenth Century around the world. As Tate Modern opens an exhibition Conflict Time and Photography, former New Generation Thinker Dr Zoe Norridge from Kings' College London discusses images of war with Austrian photographer Alex Schlacher. And Agata Pyzik and Michael Goddard discuss Krzysztof Kieslowski an auteur director more interested in the general human condition than politics per se.
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| 0:32.0 | Tonight, an award-winning historian on how weather turned crisis into catastrophe in the 17th century and why he thinks |
| 0:39.0 | the lessons from then apply to us today. As we reflect on the season of 1989 anniversaries, |
| 0:45.0 | it's 25 years since the first broadcast of 10 films that explored the human condition |
| 0:50.3 | with a distinctively Polish sensibility. We'll be exploring the impact of Christoph Kislovsky's |
| 0:55.7 | TV drama classic, Decalogue, a bit later on. And one of the best exponents of the finely crafted |
| 1:01.3 | murder mystery die today. We'll have a tribute to the writer, P.D. James. But we begin with a major |
| 1:07.5 | photography exhibition, which opened today at Tate Modern. Conflict |
| 1:10.9 | time photography combines archive and contemporary images of various conflicts. They're taken during |
| 1:17.3 | the fighting and in the immediate aftermath, but also many years later. The exhibition covers |
| 1:22.9 | well-known photographs of recent wars, like Luke Delahaye's Erie Field with smoke rising from it |
| 1:28.5 | after a bombardment of Taliban positions in Afghanistan. |
| 1:32.3 | But they also reach back in time to the suppression of the Parisian commune by the French army, |
| 1:37.9 | and they chart the impact of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki many years afterwards. |
| 1:43.4 | With me here in the studio to discuss what they |
| 1:45.5 | make of this are the documentary photographer Alex Schlacher, whose new photo book about the |
| 1:50.0 | Gerkers is the result of three years' work, and Zoe Norwich, a former new generation thinker, |
| 1:55.7 | whose exhibition of work by Rwandan photographers was in London earlier this year. Zoe, enormous scale and |
| 2:02.6 | ambition in this exhibition. What did you make of it? From the moment we see that very stark |
| 2:07.5 | opening image of the shell-shocked marine with the sort of dead eyes, what did you make of that |
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