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Virtue and Vice

Andrew Marr hosts the cultural discussion show with artist and opera director William Kentridge, theatre director Lucy Bailey, therapist Susie Orbach and academic Simon Goldhill.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr hears stories of virtue and vice. Lucy Bailey is directing Milton's Comus, a masque in honour of chastity, in which a Lady, lost in the woods, is tempted by pleasure. In Berg's opera Lulu the eponymous heroine appears to be the epitome of seductive pleasure, an amoral seductress, but William Kentridge's production questions how much she is the real victim. The academic Simon Goldhill charts the transition from the high Victorian period into modernity through one family's relationship with sex, psychoanalysis and religion, while the very modern preoccupation with therapy is laid bare, as Susie Orbach reveals what happens behind the therapist's door.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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43 minutes

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Mon 7 Nov 2016 21:30
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Simon Goldhill

is Professor of Greek and the Director of the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge.

A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain is published by the University of Chicago Press.

Lucy Bailey

Lucy Bailey is a theatre director.

Comus – A Masque in Honour of Chastity by John Milton is on at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe until Saturday 19 November.

William Kentridge

William Kentridge is an artist.

Lulu is on at the London Coliseum from Wednesday 9 November.

Susie Orbach

is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer, activist and social commentator.

In Therapy: How conversations with psychotherapists really work is published by Profile Books.

The new series of In Therapy begins on Radio 4 today at midday.

Credits

Presenter Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest William Kentridge
Interviewed Guest Lucy Bailey
Interviewed Guest Susie Orbach
Interviewed Guest Simon Goldhill
Producer Katy Hickman

Broadcasts

  • Mon 7 Nov 2016 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Mon 7 Nov 2016 21:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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  • Start the Week

    Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday