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Free Thinking - Wonder Woman

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2598 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

American author Rebecca Solnit discusses the impact of "mansplaining" which she explores in her book Men Explain Things To Me. Matthew Sweet looks at the image of Wonder Woman with comic artist Steve Marchant and Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman. And New Generation Thinker Dr Will Abberley and film critic Ian Christie discuss the genre of submarine films.

Transcript

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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?

0:23.4

It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music

0:27.0

when it's out of ice cream.

0:28.9

Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.

0:32.3

Thank you, Jonathan.

0:33.5

And up Periscope.

0:35.6

Last year, I went out of the Black Sea.

0:39.0

He found something.

0:41.6

One of Hitler's U-boats is just sitting on the seabed.

0:47.0

Full of gold.

0:49.0

How much gold we told?

0:50.9

$182 million.

0:55.5

Equal share every man.

0:59.5

Jude Law and crew going down in Black Sea.

1:03.0

In what, though? Is it a submarine,

1:04.9

or is it a great hulking metaphor

1:06.6

for the relationship between capital and labour?

1:09.4

Later, we'll sound the bottom of the submarine drama.

1:12.8

And also on the sonar, Rebecca Solnit,

1:15.3

on live to tell us why men explaining things to her

1:18.2

is the tip of the patriarchal iceberg.

1:21.1

And we'll discover what Diana Prince did for the women's movement.

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