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How Should We Live Together?

A History of Ideas Omnibus

Economist Kate Barker, historian Justin Champion and philosophers Timothy Secret and Angie Hobbs discuss the history of ideas around how to live together. Melvyn Bragg presents.

A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices. An opportunity to hear all this week's programmes in this Omnibus edition.

Melvyn is joined by four guests with different backgrounds to discuss a really big question. This week he's asking 'How should we live together?'

Helping him answer it are the historian Justin Champion, economist Kate Barker, and the philosophers Angie Hobbs and Timothy Secret.

Across the week Justin, Kate, Angie and Timothy took us further into the question, with programmes of their own. They examined ideas about tolerating others, respecting our ancestors, the morality of the Free Market, and Plato's ideas about the importance of philosopher rulers.

This omnibus edition has all five programmes together.

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58 minutes

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Fri 24 Jul 2015 21:00
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