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Last week, the death was announced of the writer and sociologist Stuart Hall,

an influential thinker on multiculturalism and contemporary Britain since the 1960s.

To mark his death, there's a chance now to hear him talking with Philip Dodd in a program which was first broadcast on Radio 3 in December 2004.

Hello, he is the most electrifying public speaker in the country. That's the academic and writer Terry Eagleton's description of Stuart Hall, Nightwaves guest in this evening's extended conversation.

From his editorship of Universities and New Left Review, post the crises in Suis and Hungary,

through his involvement in the rise of cultural studies, to his analyses of Thatcherism,

Stuart Hall has a reasonable claim to be the foremost intellectual of the left in Britain.

Stuart Hall was born in Jamaica in 1932,

coming to Oxford to study as a Rhodes Scholar in 1951,

part of that Britain-bound Caribbean generation

that included the novelist George Lamming and V.S. Nypole.

Stuart Hall's been involved in cultural political movements since then.

He helped to shape in the 1960s the May Day Manifesto

with his great friend and thinker Raymond Williams opposing the labourism of Harold Wilson.

More recently, in the 1980s, in the pages of Marxism today,

he offered an analysis of the Thacherite

new times through which we were living. For most of his working life, he's combined this

political life with an academic one, developing the centre for contemporary and cultural studies

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