Utopias in history and an environmental disaster

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🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Writer and thinker Rutger Bregman discusses his new book Utopia for Realists, exploring examples of how to create a better society. Meanwhile, we speak to BBC radio producer Julian May about the aftermath of the Torrey Canyon disaster, when a huge oil tanker ran aground in 1967 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.2	because they would have to treat all the people who are bored.
0:48.9	That was Rutger Bregman discussing his new book, Utopia for Realists.
0:54.5	Suddenly there was a strange noise and and these buccaneer bombers flew very low, and they were on
1:00.7	their way to bomb the ship, and I could actually hear the bombs going off. They bombed it with
1:05.2	thousand pounders. And that was Julian May, recalling the Torrey Canyon disaster of 1967.
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