What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England and ideas about civility. Plus Shahidha Bari talks to Makena Onjerika the winner of the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing. And, as the NHS approaches its 70th anniversary, we discuss the relationship between care, institutions, and the concept of medicine with novelist and former nurse Christie Watson, and historian of the NHS Roberta Bivins.
Nandini Das is working on the Tide Project http://www.tideproject.uk/ exploring travel and identity in England 1550 - 1700 She and John Gallagher are taking part in the Society for Renaissance Studies conference at Sheffield University this week. Christie Watson is the author of The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story.
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
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| 1:05.9 | Hello, how are you? No, please let us hold the door open for you, and no, really do take the comptiest armchair. We absolutely insist. Here at Freethinking, we are all solicitude and sympathy in today's |
| 1:13.1 | programme as we explore ideas of care and courtesy. Modern political life might seem to have |
| 1:18.8 | descended into mudslinging and name-calling, but hasn't it ever been thus? New Generation |
| 1:23.9 | Thinkers John Galaher and Nandini Das report from this year's Society of Renaissance Studies Conference, |
| 1:30.2 | where scholars are busy examining civility in early modern culture. |
| 1:34.8 | And there's nothing like a literary award for polite ceremony and gracious exchanges. |
| 1:39.5 | We can ask McKenna on Jericho about that. |
| 1:41.7 | She's here hot on the heels of the 2018 Cane Prize for African |
| 1:45.6 | Writing last night, which she won for her story, Fanta Black Current. From good manners, though, |
| 1:51.7 | to bedside manners. You might recognise that as the stressfully pulsating theme tune of BBC One's long-limping hospital drama, casualty, |
| 2:09.6 | an onslaught of gourd intestines and skull fractures scheduled around tea time every Saturday. |
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