Night Waves - The Amen Corner

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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A first night review of the National Theatre's revival of James Baldwin's drama The Amen Corner, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Matthew Sweet along with Susannah Clapp and Lindsay Johns review. Are conspiracy theories the sign of a decayed or thriving democracy? Discussing are Professor Sir Richard Evans, David Aaronovitch and Eliane Glaser. New Generation Thinker John Gallagher meditates on the pleasures and pitfalls of disguise for the sixteenth century traveller. And Matthew interviews Rachel Kushner whose latest novel, The Flamethrowers is about the art and radicalism of the 1970's.

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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.co.uk slash radio three.
0:40.6	Bilderberg, Kemp trails, the coming Orwellian nightmare, that international crime ring run by the Queen.
0:47.3	Tonight we're going to expose the conspiracies that the mainstream media don't want you to know about.
0:53.1	Oh, hang on, the BBC is the mainstream media, which must be why this happened on the Sunday politics. Hey, listen, I'm here to warn people. You keep telling me to shut up. This isn't a game. Okay, our government in the U.S. is building FEMA camps. We have an NDAA where they disappear people now. You have this arrest for public safety, life in prison. You are the worst
1:12.4	person I've entered into. No, no, it's basically off with their heads, disappear. David, thank you for
1:16.8	being. The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in full flow. But do the sideshow antics of fruity
1:22.6	activists stop us from worrying about real conspiracies like the libel rate-fixing scandal or possible ones,
1:29.5	like the claims of the whistleblower Edward Snowden. We'll investigate that, as well as exposing two
1:34.7	figures whose true natures we think the public really ought to be informed about, the American novelist
1:39.8	Rachel Kushner and the next of our new generation thinkers. And Susanna Clap and Lindsay Johns will be here any moment
1:46.0	to review James Baldwin's play, The Amen Corner.
1:49.0	The Armen Corner was written in 1954.
1:52.0	Is it a coincidence, I wonder, that this is also the year that the Bilderberg conference
1:56.0	was first convened? Maybe this man would know.
1:59.0	And I just want to put this thing into context, not least for the mainstream media,
2:06.4	because what they do is they treat everything as a dot.
2:10.2	If you treat everything as a dot, you don't see the picture.
2:13.1	So let's put some dots together.
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