Free Thinking - War: Tear Gas. New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri on the Spanish Civil War. Iraq.
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Philip Dodd explores war and modern memory with former Colonel Lincoln Jopp MC, the historians, Lloyd Clark, Anna Feigenbaum and Ana Carden-Coyne and the New Generation Thinker, Anindya Raychaudhuri.
Lloyd Clark teaches War Studies at the University of Buckingham and is writing a book on generalship.
Dr Ana Carden-Coyne is co-director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War at Manchester University.
Dr Anna Feigenbaum teaches at Bournemouth University and is currently writing Tear Gas: 100 Years in the Making.
Former Colonel Lincoln Jopp MC studied philosophy and theology at university before taking up a commission with the Scots Guards. He was decorated for gallantry in Sierra Leone and served in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan before finishing his military career as assistant head of the MOD's strategy unit.
Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri is a lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews and is conducting oral history research into the impact of Partition.
The New Generation Thinkers prize is an initiative launched by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to find the brightest minds from across the UK who have the potential to transform their research into engaging broadcast programmes. You can hear more about the research topics of all 10 2016 New Generation Thinkers on our website on a programme broadcast on May 31st and available as an arts and ideas podcast and find clips where you can hear their newly commissioned written pieces on a range of subjects.
Producer: Zahid Warley
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| 0:32.1 | Hello. |
| 0:33.2 | On tonight's program, no tinker, no tailor, but a soldier, curator, and a small platoon of historians on how the ghosts of wars past haunt us. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm just back from China where museums ready themselves to remember Mao's Long March. |
| 0:51.2 | Here, reimagininges of the Battle of the Som slide in and out of focus |
| 0:56.5 | as the noise from the Chilcot Report reverberates. And from Fallujah to Dakar and beyond, |
| 1:02.9 | memories of old conflicts and hurts fuel new wars and ways of waging wars. So on tonight's |
| 1:09.5 | programme we ask how our memories of war shape our present lives, our actions, dreams, nightmares. |
| 1:16.6 | For as Ellie Wiesel, who died recently said, without memory, there is no culture. |
| 1:21.6 | Without memory, there will be no civilisation, no society, no future. |
| 1:26.6 | Soon we'll ask why the Somme has been such a recent intense focus of our memory. |
| 1:31.3 | Then look at modernity and war, at our memories of war as technology from tanks to drones, |
| 1:37.3 | and finally at donkeys and lions, the cruel description of First World War military leaders and troops, and at how |
| 1:45.8 | that image shapes our present sense of the relationship of leaders and lead. To engage with all |
| 1:52.8 | this have enlisted the military historian Lloyd Clark, Anna Carden Coen who's just curated a show in Manchester |
| 1:59.9 | about the First World War, |
| 2:01.9 | Anna Feigenbaum, who's written a history of Teagas, |
| 2:05.2 | the new generation thinker, an India Ray Chowdry, whose interest is in memory on war, |
| 2:10.4 | and former Colonel Lincoln Jop, who was awarded the Military Cross for Gallantry |
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