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Arts & Ideas

Free Thinking - Pantomime past to present

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2598 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Sweet on Pantomime past to present with writer Jeffrey Richards and actor/director Tony Lidington. Bryony Lavery talks stage writing ahead of her double-Christmas offerings of Treasure Island at the National Theatre in London and The One Hundred and One Dalmatians at Chichester's Festival Theatre. American biologist EO Wilson on the meaning of human existence.

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0:34.6

Good evening and welcome to the only programme, apart from I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of

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Here, which has room for talk of termites, treasure hunts and Christopher Biggins. So, Merry Christmas

0:44.6

to you. Tonight, E.O. Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary biologist and presiding

0:50.3

genius of ant studies will tell us the meaning of human existence.

0:55.0

If you think I'm overselling him, that's the title of his new book.

0:58.6

And you'll also hear from the dramatist Brian Ilavery,

1:01.7

who has written plays about child abuse and the minor strike and drowning on a submarine,

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