Andrew Mar on BBC's Radio 4 "Start of the Week" [podcast 45 min]
Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include historian Antony Beevor on his new book, D Day; creator of the hit TV series The Wire, David Simon; and leading physicist Michio Kaku on 'The Physics of the Impossible'.
The historian Antony Beevor argues that his new book is the first major history of the battle for Normandy in 20 years to take a ‘bottom up’ perspective on the conflict. He emphasises the high toll on civilians of the Normandy landings and questions the tactics of the Allies.
David Simon is the creator of cult TV series The Wire and has been a crime reporter for twenty years. Working on the Baltimore streets, he has come to believe that drug prohibition doesn’t work. With local newspapers closing down he argues that there is no-one left to ask why crimes are committed.
The novelist Susan Hill argues that we have failed to teach our children how to appreciate silence. In an increasingly noisy and secular society, she believes that there is a yearning for quietness along with a fear about what we will discover about ourselves when there are no distractions.
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku takes on our favourite sci-fi technologies and asks if they are really so impossible after all, from time travel to invisibility, aliens to ray guns. As a physicist at the forefront of his field, Kaku claims that even some of the most outlandish suggestions could become a reality in the not-so-distant future.
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The historian Antony Beevor argues that his new book is the first major history of the battle for Normandy in 20 years to take a ‘bottom up’ perspective on the conflict. He emphasises the high toll on civilians of the Normandy landings and questions the tactics of the Allies.
David Simon is the creator of cult TV series The Wire and has been a crime reporter for twenty years. Working on the Baltimore streets, he has come to believe that drug prohibition doesn’t work. With local newspapers closing down he argues that there is no-one left to ask why crimes are committed.
The novelist Susan Hill argues that we have failed to teach our children how to appreciate silence. In an increasingly noisy and secular society, she believes that there is a yearning for quietness along with a fear about what we will discover about ourselves when there are no distractions.
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku takes on our favourite sci-fi technologies and asks if they are really so impossible after all, from time travel to invisibility, aliens to ray guns. As a physicist at the forefront of his field, Kaku claims that even some of the most outlandish suggestions could become a reality in the not-so-distant future.