Summary
Rutger Bregman challenges ideas about the selfish gene, and survival of the fittest with stories of human co-operation and kindness as he publishes a book called Human Kind - A Hopeful History. Plus in Mental Health Awareness Week, Dr Sylvan Baker on rethinking the way we treat kids in care. And New Generation Thinker Christina Faraday on an anniversary of the fairground.
You can hear a curated selection of readings and music on the theme of travelling fairs and circuses on Radio 3's Words and Music programme broadcast Sunday afternoons at half past five and available for 28 days following on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sv2wr
Producer: Robyn Read
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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 |
| 0:21.2 | it. It's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Anne McElvoy and thanks for listening to the Arts and Ideas podcast. |
| 0:41.2 | In this episode, we've new thinking about the relevance of kindness in the idea of humankind and the way we treat children in care, plus reflections on the history of the fairground. |
| 0:52.8 | That's coming up just after this. |
| 0:55.2 | Hello, I'm Verity Sharp, |
| 0:57.5 | and with us all in lockdown, time can hang heavy, |
| 1:02.0 | and things can get a little bit claustrophobic. |
| 1:04.7 | So I'm here just to encourage you |
| 1:07.3 | to go to the one place where you can fly free, |
| 1:10.5 | and that's your imagination. |
| 1:12.6 | And with Radio 3's Slow Radio Podcast, there is no limit to where we can go with that. |
| 1:18.7 | You can go there to listen to the sounds of birds. You can visit the mountains, or you can |
| 1:23.9 | remember our once bustling cities. You can hear tales of seals and selky folk |
| 1:30.2 | or listen to rain on a hot tin roof |
| 1:33.0 | or discover the secrets of an ancient cathedral. |
| 1:37.3 | It's all there. |
| 1:38.4 | Just step back and immerse yourself |
| 1:40.4 | and search for slow radio on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:46.0 | It is to turn Dickens's telling phrase to our own days, |
| 1:50.0 | the best of times, the worst of times. |
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