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11/01/2010

Andrew Marr talks to the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, Barbara Ehrenreich exposes America's culture of positive thinking, and Simon Schama invesigates the Obama effect.

Andrew Marr talks to the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk about obsessive love and his decision to blur the distinction between fiction and reality with the opening of The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul; Barbara Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America's culture of positive thinking and irrational optimism; Simon Schama invesigates the Obama effect; Russian expert Susan Richards explores the importance of national myths.

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Mon 11 Jan 2010 21:30
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