Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Gunpowder Plot in a new tv dramatisation by Ronan Bennett plus presenter Rana Mitter explores anti-Catholic prejudice in Britain today with Catherine Pepinster and Tim Stanley, and historians Richard McGregor and Hans van de Ven discuss relations between Japan, US and China. And the Icelandic poet and songwriter Sjón on hisrole in Poetry International as it celebrates its 50th anniversary since it was founded in 1967 by former poet laureate Ted Hughes. Richard McGregor is former Beijing bureau chief for The Financial Times and the author of Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century. Hans van de Ven has written China at War: triumph and tragedy in the emergence of the new China 1937 - 1952. He is Professor of Modern Chinese History, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. 'Gunpowder' a 3-part TV series developed by Ronan Bennett, Kit Harington and Daniel West will air on BBC TV Poetry International is on London's Southbank from Friday 13th-Sunday 15th October as part of the London Literature Festival. Catherine Pepinster has written The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis. You can hear Ronan Bennett's Private Passions on BBC Radio 3 on November 5th. Producer: Fiona McLean.

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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, 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 is some level of genius. It also helps
0:21.2	it. 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 the BBC.
0:37.1	Thank you for downloading this Arts and Ideas podcast from the free-thinking team at the BBC.
0:43.0	Hello, two tigers cannot live on one mountain.
0:46.8	A traditional Chinese saying that might need to be on the t-shirts of leaders in Tokyo and Beijing,
0:51.9	as we explore why the legacy of war makes even the mighty Pacific
0:55.1	ocean into a lake too small for Asia's two greatest powers. And we'll segue from the scorching
1:01.5	coasts of Asia to the Chileer, more seismic landscape of Iceland. You show me continents, I see on the islands.
1:11.6	You count of centuries, I blink my eyes, I'm race in my way. Ice, hooks and spying.
1:35.6	Bjerks are there, with lyrics from the poet and novelist Sean.
1:39.7	More from an award-winning writer from the coldest country in Europe later on.
1:45.5	But first, how about a little bit of treason and a great deal of plot?
1:49.5	Have you had an opportunity to read the papers I sent you, sir?
1:50.6	What all of them?
1:55.3	There are nests of conspirators abroad in the country who seek Spain's aid and that of the Pope to plot an invasion.
1:58.3	The dangers to your majesty and his family are of the gravest nature.
2:03.6	We have heard this siren song from you before, Lord Cecil.
2:06.6	You must bring down a heavy hand. Must?
2:09.6	Must is not a word you used to, Francis. You forget yourself.
2:13.6	Every papist in the kingdom is a potential traitor. They must be watched, harried and
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