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No more heroes anymore.

No more heroes anymore.

A rousing start to this week's program from The Stranglers.

No more heroes.

So do we still have heroes? And if so, do we need them? Two giants of fiction will be in discussion momentarily. Scandi Noir takes on a

whole new level of darkness in the hands of a Norwegian cult writer enjoying international success.

And we muse on the appeal of mysterious disappearances in fiction.

But first, at a time when heroic figures seem thin on the ground in public life,

Lee Child, the best-selling creator of Jack Reacher, has decided to trace the earliest

stirrings of our need for them. In a slim volume called The Hero, he charts our slither from primordial

swamp through to the Bronze Age, when all of a sudden, in a manner of speaking, we started

making things up. Having created a charismatic Avenger who starred in 24 novels, two Hollywood movies,

and will soon appear on the small screen, Child certainly has form in the business

of creating a hero. I'm also joined by Pat Barker, whose heroic characters run the gamut from

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