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Analysis is off air at the moment, so we thought you might enjoy this program recorded in everyone's favorite

abstract pub. Matthew Sweet returns to the philosopher's arms.

Thank you and welcome, to the philosopher's arms. The traditional British booser where if you order a glass of German white wine,

you get a critique of pure reasoning.

Thank you. Each week we gather together a snug's worth of thinkers and drinkers and debate a textbook philosophical

problem suggested by something that happened to me on the way

to the pub.

Now I'm looking for your sympathy this week.

The BBC pays me so much money that I hardly know what to do with it.

Yeah, I know.

I was sitting at home lighting a scented candle with a 50 pound note

when it struck me.

I'll do something for my country.

I'll buy a van Gogh and give it to me. I'll do something for my country. I'll buy a van Goff and give it to the National Gallery.

So I bought one at auction and just for a few days I put it up over the serving hatch at home.

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