Night Waves - Miliband, Slavoj Zizek, Ghosts, Melissa Benn
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2013
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Derbyshire, the Managing Editor of Prospect magazine, and Observer columnist Nick Cohen discuss the genealogy of left wing politics in Britain. The thinker and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek takes on the ideology machine of Hollywood in his new film, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. Directors Richard Eyre and Stephen Unwin discuss their two respective productions of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, which have both just opened. Melissa Benn asks what messages we are conveying to young women and what advice we should be giving our daughters to empower them for the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
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| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.6 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.8 | Listen on BBC sounds. |
| 0:31.8 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
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| 0:43.0 | Tonight we're tussling with ideas, alive, dead and spectral presences. |
| 0:48.2 | I'll be talking to Richard Eyre and Stephen Unwin, both directing productions of Ibsen's ghosts. |
| 0:53.3 | And I'll be asking Melissa Ben how we should raise daughters after feminism, |
| 0:57.4 | the subject of her new book. |
| 0:59.2 | And this music may convey joy to many, but not to the philosopher Slavo Zijek. |
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