Andrew Marr talks to the Swedish poet, Lars Gustafsson about whether writers have a responsibility to challenge the establishment. Gillian Tett, the award-winning Financial Times journalist, who predicted the financial crash, does her own challenging of the status quo. The writer Patrick Wilcken describes the great intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, as 'the poet in the laboratory' in a new biography. And Ed Vulliamy reports, in almost anthropological detail, on the lives of those caught up in the war of drugs, gangs and guns on the US-Mexican border. Producer: Katy Hickman.
The History of Rome - 115- Phase Two Complete
The near simultaneous deaths of Gallienus, Odenathus and Postumus upset the political equilibrium in the late 260s AD.
Cato Daily Podcast - Obama’s Free Trade Opportunity
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World Book Club - Kamila Shamsie – Burnt Shadows
Harriett Gilbert and an audience at the Drill Hall Theatre in Central London talk to bestselling Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie about her internationally acclaimed novel Burnt Shadows.
Spanning much of the 20th Century and into the 21st, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties honoured and betrayed, and loves lost and found.
In the devastating aftermath of the second atomic bomb, Hiroko Tanaka leaves Japan in search of new beginnings.
From Delhi, amid India's cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the uncertain wake of 9/11, to the novel's nail-biting climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow over the entire world over.
(Photo: Kamila Shamsie. Credit: Reuters)
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Motley Fool Money - Motley Fool Money: 11 05 2010
The stock market hits a two-year high. The Fed goes on a buying spree. The GOP wins control of the House. And Starbucks and Whole Foods report big earnings. On this week's show, we'll tackle those stories and talk with Ford CEO Alan Mulally.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Tea Partiers and the GOP: What’s Next?
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Cato Daily Podcast - Reading Election Day’s Tea Leaves
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Money Girl - 196 MG Who Pays Your Debt When You Die?
Find out what happens to debt when you die and learn how to protect your heirs from the hassle and expense of probate so they're taken care of.
Cato Daily Podcast - Resilient Markets and Government Intervention
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