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The Horror of Love

Stephen King says, 'Love creates horror.' AL Kennedy agrees - 'I don't personally welcome love's ability to make me fear,' she writes.

Stephen King says "Love creates horror." AL Kennedy agrees. "As someone who often says 'I think' and almost never says 'I feel', I don't personally welcome love's ability to make me fear not only for myself, but others," she writes.

But love makes us altruistic, humane. "We would find it bizarre if a parent was more worried about dropping a vase than dropping their baby - even a Ming vase and an ugly baby. An absence of love within a family or a relationship is taken as a sign of something having gone very wrong," she says.

"But an absence of love in the world we help construct around us, that's regarded as a form of common sense. We are used to making decisions - or having them made for us - which would save the vase and not the baby."

Producer: Sheila Cook.

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Sun 29 Sep 2013 08:48

A Point of View: Putting a price on love

A Point of View: Putting a price on love

Our loved ones are worth more to us than gold - but do we understand love's true value, asks AL Kennedy.

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Role Contributor
Presenter AL Kennedy
Producer Sheila Cook

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  • Fri 27 Sep 2013 20:50
  • Sun 29 Sep 2013 08:48

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