Tony Judt on our forgetful age [audio 15min @24:50]
Historian Tony Judt discusses his theory that we have entered an age of forgetting and sacrificed much of the West's post-war history in favour of myth-making over understanding, and denial over memory. Reappraisals, Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century is published by Heinemann. Interviewer Philip Dodd is a broadcaster, writer and curator who has won numerous awards in the fields of broadcasting, publishing and cultural entrepreneurship.
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