Free Thinking - Male Friendship
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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'One Man, Two Guvnors' playwright Richard Bean and novelists Steve Tolz and AD Miller join Matthew Sweet to discuss male friendships. Also filmmaker Johanna Hamilton on her new documentary - 1971, focusing on the events of March 8th that year when eight people broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania leading to embarrassing revelations for the agency.
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| 0:32.1 | Hello, this week the Republican Senator and presidential hopeful Rand Paul |
| 0:37.1 | fired the latest salvo in America's |
| 0:39.7 | war against its own security services. His was aimed from the libertarian right and seems for |
| 0:45.6 | the moment to have failed the Patriot Act, which allowed the National Security Agency to collect |
| 0:50.9 | the phone records of millions of US citizens. When did this battle begin? Well, here's the news from 1971. |
| 0:58.0 | In other news, the FBI is reported preparing to shut down some of the 500 small agencies it maintains around the country |
| 1:06.0 | because of security reasons. Last month, more than a thousand documents were stolen from the FBI |
| 1:12.1 | office in Media, Pennsylvania. The TV news reporting the consequences of a break-in at the FBI |
| 1:19.0 | offices in Media, Pennsylvania. Later, we'll uncover the 1970s American political burglary you |
| 1:25.7 | probably don't know about, with the help of the director of a new documentary on the case, |
| 1:30.3 | and the former Washington Post reporter who broke the story back in 1971. |
| 1:35.3 | They'll join us from New York in a moment. |
| 1:37.7 | First, though, another kind of conspiracy, the one that exists between men. |
| 1:42.3 | There are three of them here with me in the studio, two novelists and a playwright, |
| 1:46.0 | all of whom are here to discuss new or revived work |
| 1:49.0 | founded upon relationships between a pair of male protagonists, |
| 1:53.5 | relationships that seem more intense, more peculiar, |
| 1:56.5 | and maybe more honest than the ones these characters conduct with the women in their lives. |
| 2:01.3 | Let me introduce you to the real men in the room and the fictional ones too. |
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