Truth
Mark Tully seeks truth in a post-truth world. He considers how to recognise what is true among a cacophony of conjecture, and how fiction, paradoxically, might lead us to truth.
As the UK election approaches, Mark Tully seeks truth in a post-truth world. He considers how to recognise what is true among a cacophony of conjecture and, in the company of author Howard Jacobson, how fiction might lead us to truth. They agree that we live in times when the search for truth is particularly important - but more difficult than ever.
With help from the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Emily Dickinson, Joseph Goebbels and Lewis Carroll, Mark examines just how slippery the concept of truth can be, and how an untruth told often enough, with enough conviction, can become credible.
Or, as that great believer in manufactured truth, Humpty Dumpty, would have it, "when I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean."
Producer: Adam Fowler
A 7digital production for 成人快手 Radio 4.
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Bobby Darin
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Soui Massi
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Randy Crawford
Everything Must Change
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Vangelis
West Across The Ocean Sea
Performer: Vangelis.- Eastwest.
Readings
Title: Of Truth: The Protagonist Speaking听
Author: Richard Eberhart听
Published in the Poetry Magazine听
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Title: Knowledge and Propaganda听
Author: Joseph Goebbels听
Published in "Erkentnis und Propaganda", Signale der neuen Zeit. 25 ausgewahlte Reden von Dr. Joseph Goebbels (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1934), pp. 28-52.
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Title: Tell all the truth but tell it slant听
Author: Emily Dickenson听
Published by Poetry Foundation
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Title: The Wayfarer
Author: Stephen Krane听
Published in War Is Kind and Other Lines, no. 13, published 1899
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Title: From Yeravda Mandir (Ashram Observances)听
Author: M.K. Gandhi听
Published by:听听
Broadcasts
- Sun 28 May 2017 06:05成人快手 Radio 4
- Sun 28 May 2017 23:30成人快手 Radio 4