Carol Tavris considers new approaches to the old problem of old age (and the newer problem of old old age); as secularism wanes on the global scale, Rupert Shortt considers whether religion does more harm than good
Books
Bolder: Making the most of our longer lives by Carl Honoré
Borrowed Time: The science of how and why we age by Sue Armstrong
Retirement and Its Discontents: Why we won’t stop working, even if we can by Michelle Pannor Silver
Women Rowing North: Navigating life’s currents and flourishing as we age by Mary Pipher
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, gravity and getting old by Parker J. Palmer
This Chair Rocks: A manifesto against ageism by Ashton Applewhite
Does Religion do More Harm than Good? by Rupert Shortt
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“What we often forget in the daily drumbeat of abuses by the dominant tech companies is our complicity in these abuses, and in the fundamental and unsettling ways the internet has changed every one of us.”
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enters its seventieth anniversary, Dave Eggers, in the 2018 PEN H. G. Wells lecture, argues that urgent amendments are needed to mitigate the corrosive effects of technology on the societal and the personal. You can read an edited extract from the lecture on the TLS website.
This is a recording of an event that took place on December 16, 2018, at the Bridge Theatre, London.
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Phil Baker guides us through the morbid, wistful and yet immensely charming world of the writer and illustrator Edward Gorey; Frances Wilson weighs the pleasures and pains of letter and email writing; Ian Sansom on the struggle to be funny
Books
Born To Be Posthumous: The eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Dery
What a Hazard a Letter Is: The strange destiny of the unsent letter, by Caroline Atkins
Written In History: Letters that changed the world, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
In Their Own Words: Volume 2: More letters from history
Wit's End: What wit is, how it works, and why we need it, by James Geary
Messing About In Quotes: A little Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations, compiled by Gyles Brandreth
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Na segunda parte do episódio sobre armas de fogo, especialistas falam sobre a falta de controle e de fiscalização, que, na prática, tem feito muita gente sair armado nas ruas impunemente. Também fomos a campo tentar sentir na pele o fascínio por pólvora e metal na esperança de responder por que, afinal, tanta gente ama as armas de fogo?
– Entrevistados do episódio:
Gerente da área de Justiça e Segurança do Instituto Sou da Paz
Assessora Sênior do Instituto Sou da Paz
Coronel José Vicente da Silva Filho
Coronel reformado da Polícia Militar, secretário nacional de segurança pública durante o governo FHC.
Psicóloga, psicanalista e cineasta.
Ouça primeira parte do episódio.:
– Ficha técnica:
Produção, apresentação e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
Trilha sonora: Paulo Gama
Mixagem: Vitor Coroa
– Colabore com o projeto Rádio Escafandro:
David Coward celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of Cyrano de Bergerac, whose radical thought has long been obscured by his protuberant nose; Muriel Zagha on Molière, France’s most famous playwright, and a bold new adaptation of Tartuffe; finally, a poem by Stephen Knight: “Rail Replacement Bus Service” (sigh)
Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’, a new version by John Donnelly, at the National Theatre, London
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