Free Thinking - Man Booker Prize
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Sherlock Holmes is investigated by Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet as the Museum of London opens an exhibition. Literary critic Alex Clark gives her verdict as the Man Booker Prize is announced. Also the relevance of Plato and Aristotle to contemporary life are debated by the American novelist and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Armand Leroi, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College, London.
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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 |
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| 0:40.7 | The best and wisest man whom I have ever known. That's what John Watson said when he told the world that his friend Sherlock Holmes had fallen to his death in what we must now call a Reichenbach-Falls-type struggle with Professor Moriarty. But Watson was also |
| 0:56.4 | quoting Plato, because this is also what Plato said about his friend Socrates. And Socrates |
| 1:02.1 | seems to have agreed, I'm the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know |
| 1:08.0 | nothing. So a man of deep philosophical honesty, |
| 1:12.7 | but not somebody that you'd call in if your sister expired mysteriously in the night, |
| 1:15.4 | declaring the band, the speckled band. |
| 1:18.5 | Tonight, Holmes and Watson are under investigation. |
| 1:21.3 | They're the subject of a major new exhibition, |
| 1:23.7 | and their modern Resurrection Man, Mark Gatiss, |
| 1:26.4 | co-creator of the BBC series, Sherlock, is here live to interpret the evidence. |
| 1:31.5 | And we have a pair of Greek interpreters here too, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Armand Marie Lerwa, |
| 1:38.0 | who are here to tell us how Plato and Aristotle can help us solve modern problems, scientific and moral. |
| 1:44.9 | And we'll also calculate the impact of Ada Lovelace, |
| 1:48.3 | the world's first computer programmer, |
| 1:50.7 | and mother, therefore, of the Enigma Machine, |
| 1:53.3 | candy crush, unexpected item in bagging area, and this. |
| 1:56.8 | And this. |
| 2:23.3 | Yeah. Without you, without you, I die. Music by Myra Calli, inspired by the 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace. |
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