Free Thinking - Tom McCarthy

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Anne McElvoy looks at what we mean by the idea of fairness. She also talks to novelist Tom McCarthy who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel C. His new work Satin Island follows a man working for a consultancy trying to sum up our age - who wonders whether there is a logic which holds the world together.

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0:21.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
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0:26.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:29.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.8	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:34.8	Hello, and on the programme tonight, Tom McCarthy talks to me about his new novel,
0:39.6	Saturn Island, and the allure of corporate anthropology. How fair is fairness, and should we be
0:46.0	so attached to a notion that's devilishly hard to pin down? A fair selection of a philosopher,
0:51.2	leading lawyer, and psychologist will be discussing that with me a bit
0:54.5	later on. And the Norwegian writer, Osni Saersstadt, on the making of a mass murderer and the tragic
1:01.0	impact on Norway and beyond of the terrible crimes committed by Anders Breivik.
1:06.0	The court never found any traces of psychosis in him,
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