Night Waves - Constitutions and press regulation
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2013
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As Zimbabwe votes in favour of a new constitution, Anne McElvoy is joined by Albie Sachs, journalist Simon Jenkins human rights lawyer Chibli Mallat to examine whether national constitutions aid or impede democracy. In light of this week’s cross-party deal on press regulation established by Royal Charter, Private Eye editor Ian Hislop and media expert James Curran offer contesting views on the State’s relationship with the press. Susannah Clapp delivers a first night review of The Book of Mormon, the new musical from the creators of South Park. And Simon Morrison discusses Lina Prokofiev, the wife of the composer Sergei, who is the subject of his new biography.
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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 when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.9 | Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:34.1 | For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.com.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:40.6 | On Nightwaves tonight, we bring you a first night review of the Book of Mormon, Broadway's rudest and most successful musical export in recent years. |
| 0:48.5 | Turn it off like a light switch, just go click click It's a cool little Mormon trick |
| 0:55.0 | We do it all the time |
| 0:57.1 | When you're feeling certain feelings |
| 0:58.8 | That just don't seem right |
| 1:00.3 | Treat those pesky feelings like a reading light |
| 1:03.3 | And turn them off |
| 1:04.9 | Like a light switch just go back |
| 1:07.8 | Really what's so hard about that |
| 1:10.7 | Turn it all! Turn it off! Right? It's just go back. Really what's so hard about that? |
| 1:12.2 | Turn it all. |
| 1:13.6 | Turn it off. |
| 1:18.6 | Turn it off from the Book of Mormon. |
| 1:25.3 | A new book on Lina Prokofiev, an earth's fresh material about musical life and the Gulag in Stalin's Russia. |
| 1:28.2 | And he and his lot will be joining me to tell me why press regulation today reminds him of Alexander Pope and evil in war. But first, George |
| 1:33.6 | Washington once said that the constitution was a guide I will never abandon. But are modern |
| 1:38.8 | constitutions really a foundation stone of good governance, or just fine words, promising elusive good intentions. |
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