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Flight MH370

Episode 10 of 17

Peter Conrad analyses 21st-century popular culture, in the spirit of Roland Barthes. In this episode, he discusses the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. Conrad ranges over the defining pop cultural moments of our era, from the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, missing flight MH370.

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Fri 17 Oct 2014 12:04

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