Night Waves - Gandhi
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2013
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Rana Mitter looks forward to an Age of the Happy City with innovative urban scholar, Richard Burdett, and journalist and urban experimentalist, Charles Montgomery. One of India's leading historians Ramachandra Guha tells Rana about Gandhi before India. He traces the friendships, set-backs, struggles and events which shaped Gandhi's thinking and honed skills he would take back into India's struggle for independence. And Jacky Klein reviews a major retrospective of artist brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman's work opening this week at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
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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 is some level of genius. It also helps |
| 0:21.2 | that 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. |
| 0:32.1 | This is a download from the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:41.0 | Tonight on nightwaves, we'll be rethinking one of South Africa's greatest leaders. |
| 0:45.1 | Not Mandela, but Mahandas Gandhi. |
| 0:47.9 | The historian Ramachandra Guha puts the case that it was his early years in Africa that really made the Mahatma. |
| 0:54.3 | What brings together Nazi dolls, the Ku Klux Klan, |
| 0:57.7 | and the fast food connection to 9-11? |
| 1:00.4 | It's got to be iconoclastic artist Jake and Dinos Chapman. |
| 1:04.3 | We'll review a major retrospective from Britain's most prominent |
| 1:07.3 | Goia-destroying miniature model manipulating artists. |
| 1:11.8 | But first, |
| 1:19.0 | Hot town, summer in the city, back of my neck getting dirt and gritty. Bend down, isn't it a pity? Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city. Dirty and gritty in the city. In the wise words |
| 1:25.3 | of the love and spoonful, a reminder that cities aren't |
| 1:27.8 | always designed to keep their inhabitants cool and calm. The architect who redesigned New York |
| 1:33.1 | in the 1960s may have been called Robert Moses, but he certainly didn't turn Long Island |
| 1:37.7 | into the promised land, a bit too much concrete and mega highway for that. So what is it that |
| 1:43.0 | makes a city happy? Per capita income isn't |
| 1:46.2 | the whole story. For instance, New Orleans is one of the most crime-ridden and poorest major cities in |
| 1:51.3 | America, and yet it has one of the highest recorded rates of resident satisfaction of any city in |
| 1:57.2 | that country. And cities are the future. 70% of us will be living in cities by 2050, |
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