Night Waves - Sex and the Arab World
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2013
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Shereen El Feki, author of Sex and the Citadel, joins Philip Dodd to explore how the struggles for political change in the Arab world have been accompanied by a sexual revolution. Professor Andrew Hussey explains how the culture and history of France can by understood by observing the history of the Louvre. As Science is becoming ever more popular in our news and consciousness, neuroscientist Daniel Glaser and philosopher of science Rupert Read discuss whether we are living through a new age of Enlightenment. And critic Nigel Floyd reviews Broken, the new film directed by Rufus Norris.
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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 |
| 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. |
| 0:40.5 | On tonight's programme, we are living through a second enlightenment, with science moving us towards an inspiring future. |
| 0:48.6 | That's the argument of a new report. True? Well, we'll discuss later. |
| 0:53.3 | Aaron the Arab Spring. We know all about it, |
| 0:56.6 | but is there another awakening happening across the region in its bedrooms? A female journalist |
| 1:03.0 | has had the intelligence and audacity to talk to pregnant virgins and sex workers |
| 1:08.8 | amongst others living in Arab cultures. |
| 1:12.0 | And, at regular intervals, British cinema throws up a film centred on paying children |
| 1:17.1 | and their families. Think Kess or the Arbour. |
| 1:21.2 | What can I do for it? |
| 1:23.6 | I was wondering if we could have a little chat. |
| 1:27.0 | Chat? |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah, yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:31.0 | All right, what I wanted to ask you |
| 1:34.3 | was if you could ask your girls |
| 1:38.6 | to give the Buckley's a break. |
| 1:43.0 | They've been having a tough time of it, don't they? |
| 1:46.0 | Two fathers, Tim Roth and Rory Keneer, |
| 1:48.9 | who's just assaulted brutally a next-door neighbour in Broken. |
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