Individualism and Community
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
From carers and refugees, New Deal America in the 30s back to Enlightenment values - Anne McElvoy explores the intersections between community and the individual, care and conscience with: Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett, authors of The Upswing, arguing for a return to the communitarian American values of the New Deal-era1920s Madeleine Bunting, whose book Labours of Love looks at the crisis of care in the UK today New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel, whose book Conscience and the Age of Reason traces the history of the idea of conscience from the 18th century Enlightenment to today. Novelist Jenny Erpenbeck, whose past work has included a novel Go, Went, Gone, exploring the integration of asylum seekers into German society and whose new work is a collection of essays called Not A Novel.
You might also be interested in the playlist called The Way We Live Now on the Free Thinking website which includes Rutger Bregman on Kindness, discussions about modern slavery, refugees, gambling and narcissism https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p072637b
This episode is tied into Radio 3's residency at London's Southbank Centre and their Inside Out programme of talks and concerts which have included interviews with social reformers and campaigners - and an installation of images and poetry called Everyday Heroes marking the work of carers.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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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, 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 is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's |
| 0:27.5 | out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm Anne McElvoy and this is the free-thinking podcast. I'm Anne McHelvoy and this is the Freethinking Podcast. |
| 0:41.4 | Community and Individuality is our theme today. |
| 0:45.1 | In a moment, we'll hear how the Beatles can help chart the social change |
| 0:48.8 | from a sharing to a more selfish society in the 20th century, |
| 0:53.2 | investigate the roots of a crisis in care, |
| 0:56.1 | and wonder when a novel is not a novel, all that to come. |
| 1:00.4 | After this. |
| 1:01.3 | Why does music move us? |
| 1:03.2 | How does it do it? |
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| 1:18.5 | From background music to Birdsong, from Beethoven to Beyonce, from Bach to the future. |
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