Not All Propaganda is Art 3: The Man Who Was Thursday's Children

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In 1956 London Theater critic Kenneth Tynan helped launch a youth movement committed to exposing social and political issues on stage, on screen and in literature. We take a close look at the operators and opportunists behind England’s Angry Young Men.

Shownotes: Michael Billington wrote for the Guardian, Celia Brayfield wrote Rebel Writers, Clare Bucknell wrote The Treasuries Laura Bradley writes on Brecht.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
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0:21.4	fm thanks
0:24.0	William beres is in big trouble this is police he is accused of running a pan-European
0:29.9	art smuggling ring with ties to the Sicilian mafia and if convicted he faces up to 20 years
0:35.7	in prison.
0:36.7	He's called the professor by dealers and traffickers.
0:40.1	To stay out of jail, William Verres plans to find a hundred million dollar painting, Caravaggio's
0:45.0	nativity.
0:46.0	I once asked how many mobsters do you know in Sicily.
0:49.0	He said, well, officially none.
0:53.1	From brazen and PRX, listen to the professor wherever you get your podcasts.
0:57.7	Out now.
0:58.7	Previously on, not all propaganda is art.
1:05.0	A young Englishman who, if not angry, is at least opinionated.
1:09.0	Kenneth Tyman.
1:10.0	In the the English applied this country absolutely into a cultural what I could call a cultural dust bowl.
1:30.0	Kenneth Tainen wanted a theater that was engaged with the political, social, and sexual issues of the day.
1:38.0	And in 1956, he was ready to put his thumb on the scale and his shoulder to the wheel. I want to return to where we began last episode. The CIA's encounter magazine
2:06.3	May 1956 investigation into the younger generation.
2:10.3	Many a novel or play has been written on these hallowed tables. To go with Martha Gellhorn's report on London's coffee scene
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