Night Waves - The Nation State
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2012
⏱️ 45 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
How relevant is the Nation-State in today's world? Philip Dodd debates the future of the Nation -State with political commentator Will Hutton, New Generation Thinker Adriana Sinclair, Turkish novelist Elif Shafak and historian Quentin Skinner. Susannah Clapp reviews Martin Crimp's new play In The Republic of Happiness. And Philip talks to Wm Paul Young, the American Christian author whose debut novel The Shack has sold over 18 million copies.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 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. |
| 0:34.7 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:36.6 | For more information and our terms of use, go to |
| 0:39.1 | BBC.co.uk slash radio three. On tonight's program, the nation state is dead. Or is it, think a |
| 0:49.3 | possible Scottish or Catalonian state. Think the Palestinians or the recent Greek national hostility towards the EU. |
| 0:58.0 | Soon we'll discuss the strange and continuing life of the nation state in an age of globalisation. |
| 1:05.3 | And we review a violent satire at the Roll Court Theatre in London, where people walked out last night when I saw it. |
| 1:13.4 | Plus, an interview with a man brought up by his missionary parents in Papua New Guinea amongst the Donny tribe. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.