A Point of View show

A Point of View

Summary: Weekly reflections on topical issues from a range of contributors including historian Lisa Jardine, novelist Sarah Dunant and writer Alain de Botton.

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 PoV: David Cannadine: Presidential Inaugurations: 25 Jan 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:00

David Cannadine reflects on the history of presidential inaugurations and how American presidents since Abraham Lincoln have crafted their speeches when it's second time around.

 PoV: Will Self: Urban Designs 18 JAN 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:08

Will Self laments what he sees as an absence of rational urban planning in our big cities and a fashion for dramatic sky scrapers driven by short term commercial values.

 PoV: Will Self: Terminal Thoughts 11 JAN 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:44

Will Self says he would rather commit suicide than die a slow, painful death and would like society to find his choice more acceptable than at present.

 PoV: Will Self: American Ambivalence 06 JAN 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:09

Will self reflects on Britain's confused relationship with the U.S. Taking the Tom Stoppard plays his American mother took him to see in the 70s as his starting point, he says that our relationship with our friends across the pond changed little in the last 40 years.

 PoV: Will Self: The British Vomitorium 28 DEC 12 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:45

Will Self takes a historic foodie tour and explores how we've gone from being a culinary backwater to being "the most food-obsessed nation in Europe - if not the world".

 PoV: Will Self: The New Economics Priesthood 21 DEC 12 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:06

Will Self warns against the false prophets of the new priesthood of economics.

 PoV: Will Self: Digital Past 14 DEC 12 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:49

Will Self reflects on the effect of technology throughout his six decades and how it has affected his perception of the passage of time.

 PoV: Onora O'Neill: Trustworthiness Before Trust 07 Dec 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:07

Onora O'Neill reflects anew on the theme of trust, which was the subject of her Reith lectures.

 PoV: Mary Beard: Marks Out of Ten, Please 30 Nov 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:50

Mary Beard on why "customer satisfaction" surveys have no place in universities and pines for the days when students were able to tell their professor their lectures were rubbish.

 PoV: Mary Beard: On Pompeii 23 Nov 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:54

Mary Beard ponders questions of privacy, archaeology and restoration as she wanders through the rooms of a new exhibition about Pompeii, the "City of the Dead".

 PoV: Mary Beard: Age of Consent 16 Nov 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:58

Mary Beard reflects on the age of consent and argues that accidents of history often determine how we choose to criminalize or regulate.

 PoV: Mary Beard: Rich man, poor man 09 Nov 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:02

Mary Beard on the long history of the rich looking down their noses - sometimes with a hearty Roman snort - at the poor.

 PoV: Martin Jacques: Understanding contemporary China 4/4 02 Nov 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:09

Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to understand the unique characteristics and apparent mysteries of contemporary China, its development and its possible future. In his final talk, he asks how the undemocratic Chinese state can enjoy legitimacy and authority in the eyes of its population.

 PoV: Martin Jacques: Understanding contemporary China 3/4 26 Oct 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:08

Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to understand the unique characteristics and apparent mysteries of contemporary China, its development and its possible future. In this third talk, he explores the nature of race in China.

 PoV: Martin Jacques: Understanding contemporary China 2/4 19 Oct 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:07

Martin Jacques presents his personal view on how best to understand contemporary China, its development and its possible future.

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