Free Thinking - William Morris

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Deller and Fiona McCarthy have each curated an exhibition looking at the art of William Morris. David Cromer's production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town was an off Broadway hit. Now the actor director is staging it in London. Ken Burns won an Emmy for his documentary about The American Civil War. Anne McElvoy has been watching his new series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History and discusses it with historian Charlie Laderman and DD Guttenplan, who writes for The International Herald Tribune, The Nation and The New York Times.

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0:34.6	Tonight we revisit an innovative classic of 20th century American theatre as the award-winning
0:39.6	version of Thornton Wilders' Our Town arrives on the London stage.
0:43.9	The extraordinary era of Theodore Roosevelt unraveled in Ken Burns' latest documentary,
0:49.2	a magisterial multi-parter that examines the legacy of a man who took on the robber barons of big
0:55.3	business and created many of the foundations of modern American political culture.
1:00.6	He was the youngest president in history, just 42, the first to have been born in a city,
1:07.7	the first to be known by his initials, TR. He was an author and naturalist,
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