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Night Waves - Anarcho-Capitalists

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2598 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As extreme libertarian thought is on the rise in right-wing politics, Anne McElvoy is joined by Business editor of The Economist Robert Guest and American historian Tim Stanley to explore the growth of ‘anarcho-capitalism’. Italian film writer Pasquale Iannone reviews Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die. Set designer Christopher Oram and theatre critic Susannah Clapp take a look at what makes great theatre stage design. And to coincide with the Southbank’s The Rest is Noise festival, Anne and guests explore the cultural and political transformations of Berlin during the 1920s and ‘30s.

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0:00.0

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0:23.4

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0:28.9

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0:32.1

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0:34.1

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0:40.6

On tonight's programme, Caesar Must Die, we take a scalpel to a prize-winning film that mixes old lags with an old dramatic master.

0:48.4

No more wobbly cardboard. Modern stage designs come into its own.

0:52.1

What does it bring to audiences?

0:53.9

And a gashmack of Berlin from the 1920s.

1:11.7

I'm the Fishele of the saun. I have a piano, to house in my salon.

1:13.8

I'm the Fischel Lola.

1:17.1

Popular tune from the 1920s.

1:19.2

As this year marks the 80th anniversary of the burning of the Reichstag,

1:20.8

we explore why the period leading up to it

1:22.9

was such a rich, creative and politically intense time

1:25.7

in Berlin.

1:27.1

But first, depending on your view of

1:29.2

where the elusive political centre is, libertarian thought is on the rise, or just taking up its

1:34.4

rightful place in the mainstream menu of ideas. Some political thinkers and commentators are

1:39.7

identifying themselves as anarcho-capitalists, bringing back a strain of anarchistic ideas about the state,

1:45.9

last witness in the days when the TV comic figure Wolfie Smith famously proclaimed freedom for tooting.

1:52.1

More noisely, the preserve of left-wing thinkers, Anika's thought, is now being appropriated more often on the right, too,

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