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Forum - A World of Ideas

Forum - A World of Ideas

Bridget Kendall hosts three prominent international thinkers debating big ideas. Duration 48 minutes. Programme broadcast on Sunday on BBC World Service, updated weekly. For more information go to bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/forum.shtml

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  • Body, memory, perception. Gormley MayerSchoenberger Lotto 14 Nov 09

    Thu, 12 Nov 09

    Duration:
    49 mins

    We like nothing better than talking about ourselves so this week’s Forum with Bridget Kendall casts a spotlight on the human brain and human form. One of Britain’s best known sculptors Antony Gormley looks at why we need to peel back our skin in order to understand our own humanity. He also conducts an experiment inviting all BBC listeners to close their eyes and connect with deep space beyond. Information technology professor Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger offers a vista of a future nightmare world where humans may be in danger of losing the capacity to forget as digital memories become so efficient at keeping our data for ever. And we peer inside our brains with neuroscientist Beau Lotto who reveals the illusion of perception and shows - with a little help from bees - why we see the way we do.

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  • 1989 Berlin Wall Sassen Sarotte Urban 8th Nov 2009

    Sun, 8 Nov 09

    Duration:
    49 mins

    Chaos and contingency marked the fall of the Berlin Wall and its political aftermath. Bridget Kendall with leading former Czech dissident Jan Urban, political historian Mary Elise Sarotte and globalisation political economist Saskia Sassen.

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