Radio 4, Start The Week. Wide ranging and interesting debate.
Listen here if you wish, look for the "listen to the most recent
edition" link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek.shtml
Guests
Middle East Correspondent for The Independent, ROBERT FISK, talks about
30 years on the front line, journalists at war and the legacy of
history. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle
East is published by Fourth Estate.
BJORN LOMBORG is author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and his
latest project is the Copenhagen Consensus - a prioritised list of
world problems. At the top is the control of HIV and at the bottom,
climate change. He explains how these conclusions have been reached and
why world leaders should be following such a list. Bjorn will be giving
the Department of Economics Public Lecture at the London School of
Economics on 17 November on The Biggest Problems in the World - What
Should We Deal With First?
Journalist and writer SIMON WINCHESTER looks at San Francisco's worst
earthquake to date, in 1906. He praises the logical response of the
city's inhabitants - scientific investigation which eventually led to
the establishment of the theory of plate tectonics. He fears we'd see a
very different response today, when the next earthquake - as it surely
will - strikes San Francisco. A Crack in the Edge of the World: The
Great American Earthquake of 1906 is published by Viking.
With nearly 700 million people travelling internationally each year,
tourism has become the largest industry in the world. But is our
compulsion to record the world around us aiding in its destruction? How
universal is our experience of tourism - from place, to culture, to
person? Will contemporary art and architecture ever substitute natural
wonders and ancient monuments? CLARE CAROLIN is curator of the
exhibition Universal Experience - Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye which
is on at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, 6 October - 11
December 2005.
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