Blithe Spirit, Strong Leadership and Military Intervention, Brain Surgery
Samira Ahmed presents a live edition from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre and reviews the first night of Blithe Spirit, starring Angela Lansbury.
Samira Ahmed presents a live edition from the pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre where Radio 3 is broadcasting live all day every day for the last two weeks of March.
Angela Lansbury has returned to the London stage to star in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. Free Thinking has a first night review from theatre critic Susannah Clapp and novelist Nicola Upson.
As the international community debates the ongoing situation in Ukraine and Syria, kremlinologist and historian, Archie Brown, and military expert and author, Frank Ledwidge discuss whether strong leaders undermine rather than enhance the possibility of good leadership.
Finally to the operating theatre when the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh talks about the distance between the doctor's oath to do harm and the realities of brain operations where decisions have to be taken fast and often under conditions of great uncertainty
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Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
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Strong Leadership and Military Intervention
A discussion on whether strong leaders undermine the possibility of good leadership
Duration: 20:55
Brain Surgery
Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on making life-or-death decisions in the operating theatre
Duration: 09:05
Blithe Spirit
Susannah Clapp and Nicola Upson review Blithe Spirit, starring Angela Lansbury
Duration: 14:23
Blithe Spirit
听is at the听Gielgud Theatre in London, currently booking until 7 June 2014
Image above: Angela Lansbury in Blithe Spirit. Photo Johan Persson.Do No Harm
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Photo credit: Rebecca Phillipson
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Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War,听by Frank Ledwidge, is available now in hardback and e-book.听
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Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Susannah Clapp Interviewed Guest Nicola Upson Interviewed Guest Archie Brown Interviewed Guest Frank Ledwidge Producer Jacqueline Smith Broadcast
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