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Marshmallow Totalitarianism and the Beauty of the Real Iran
Manage episode 489532521 series 3602009
Flared trousers, the fate of Northern Ireland, free speech, swimming with Gordon Brown and childish children’s books. All human life, as they say, is here. Sarah wants to know why we’re afraid of difficult conversations and saying what we really think, is it that we’re always being shouted down by those who don’t agree with us? What ever happened to civilised debate?
Not that our debates are ever civilised.
While Peter reminisces about his time in Iran some decades ago and how it’s not the country torn from recent headlines with a huge number of its people who actually want to live in a peaceful, secular society, not the regime enforced on them under mullah rule.
On our reading and watch list this week:
· The Apartment – Director: Billy Wilder
· The Wind In the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
· The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
· The Water Babies – Charles Kingsley
· Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
· Iran: A Nation of Nose Jobs, Not Nuclear War – Peter Hitchens
Please do get in touch, email: [email protected], you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on Whatsapp – on 07796 657512, start your message with the word ‘alas’.
Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
Producer: Philip Wilding
Editor: Alex Graham
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Jamie East
A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
25 episodes
Manage episode 489532521 series 3602009
Flared trousers, the fate of Northern Ireland, free speech, swimming with Gordon Brown and childish children’s books. All human life, as they say, is here. Sarah wants to know why we’re afraid of difficult conversations and saying what we really think, is it that we’re always being shouted down by those who don’t agree with us? What ever happened to civilised debate?
Not that our debates are ever civilised.
While Peter reminisces about his time in Iran some decades ago and how it’s not the country torn from recent headlines with a huge number of its people who actually want to live in a peaceful, secular society, not the regime enforced on them under mullah rule.
On our reading and watch list this week:
· The Apartment – Director: Billy Wilder
· The Wind In the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
· The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
· The Water Babies – Charles Kingsley
· Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
· Iran: A Nation of Nose Jobs, Not Nuclear War – Peter Hitchens
Please do get in touch, email: [email protected], you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on Whatsapp – on 07796 657512, start your message with the word ‘alas’.
Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
Producer: Philip Wilding
Editor: Alex Graham
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Jamie East
A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
25 episodes
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