Free Thinking - Suicide discussion
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Sweet discusses the way we talk about suicide with Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of 'Stay - A history of suicide and the philosophies against it'. Audio only video games are on the increase. Sound designer Nick Ryan explains his approach to creating them and Naomi Alderman reflects on the sound world they create. As Culture Minister Ed Vaizey prepares to meet some of Britain's leading black actors to discuss what is preventing them being given more tv and stage roles we hear the views of actress Adjoa Andoh. Writers Adam Gopnik and Louise Doughty discuss attitudes to Romani people in France and the UK.
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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 at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
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| 0:34.0 | For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:44.0 | You've now entered the world of free thinking. Listen very carefully. |
| 0:50.1 | Tonight's program is a labyrinth we're going to negotiate together. We'll explore the dark spaces of the audio game, |
| 0:57.8 | a place where you might have to avoid asphyxiation |
| 1:00.5 | or a sleeping carnivorous pig |
| 1:02.7 | or locate a sound source in a room |
| 1:05.1 | that's been constructed in the space between your ears. |
| 1:09.1 | We'll also follow the journey of the Roma people through the |
| 1:12.1 | European media, and the actor Adjoa Ando will audition an apparent government initiative |
| 1:17.5 | to ensure that black British acting talents don't have to emigrate to find their best work. |
| 1:23.5 | First, though, we contemplate the subject of suicide. 10.6 million people did that last night |
| 1:29.6 | as one of Britain's best-loved soap characters wound up her own storyline. |
| 1:35.5 | Because I know what it is to be loved. |
| 1:38.7 | Truly loved. |
| 1:42.0 | I hope you do too. |
| 1:45.6 | Always. |
| 1:46.5 | Then remember it. |
| 1:48.7 | I love you. |
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