
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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Sun, 5 Jul 09
Duration:
50 mins
Nobel laureate, physicist FRANK WILCZEK tells us why what we think of as empty space is not so empty, why it is actually seething with spontaneous activity. Indian writer and activist ARUNDHATI ROY argues that ballot-box democracy in her country brings very little to the vast masses of the poor. Philosopher SUSAN NEIMAN calls for a new Enlightenment based on four virtues: happiness, reason, reverence and hope.
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