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Thomas More: The Ambassadors’ Gold
An extract from More's Utopia read by John Dougall. Life on More’s mythical island and the Utopians' radical attitudes to money and wealth.
The first of five programmes celebrating Thomas More's Utopia, published 500 years ago. John Dougall reads an extract from the book which is full of radical ideas that have provided inspiration to generations of people trying to find new ways to organise society. More's Utopia is a fictional island whose inhabitants have unconventional attitudes to life's basics, for instance to money and wealth.
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Mon 19 Dec 2016
19:23GMT
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