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Last broadcast on Tue, 11 Nov 2008, 21:15 on BBC Radio 3.
Synopsis
In a special debate recorded in front of an audience at this year's Free Thinking festival Matthew Sweet is joined by philosopher and management consultant Robert Smith, novelist Andrew O'Hagan, entrepreneur Charles Armstrong and brain scientist Susan Blackmore to explore the value of experience and accumulated wisdom in today's often youth-oriented and innovation-driven society.
Free Thinking - The Value of Experience
A chance to hear one of the debates from this year’s Free Thinking Festival of Ideas.
Hosted by Matthew Sweet, he and his guests explore the value of experience in a society where the gap between generations seems bigger than ever.
For the first time the UK now has more pensioners than under-16s. And this trend does not look like reversing. Yet why as a society do we persist in valuing innovation and novelty above hard-won experience? In this debate recorded in front of an audience in Liverpool presenter Matthew Sweet and the philosopher and management consultant Robert Smith, award-winning novelist Andrew O'Hagan and brain scientist Susan Blackmore, plus the entrepreneur Charles Armstrong ask if it's time to redress the balance in favour of accumulated wisdom.
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Tue 11 Nov 200821:15
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