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Last broadcast on Wed, 31 Aug 2011, 20:45 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only).
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Do Young People Deserve Their Reputation?
Ed Howker is a co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation and co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth. The London riots have unleashed a storm of recrimination and anger, much of it focussing on the people, some of them very young, who looted shops and burned homes and businesses to the ground.
Are the London rioters bad or merely misguided? Have they failed us because we first failed them? If it's true that society gets the children it deserves, do we deserve this because of our indifference to what is happening in our own cities? Ed asks if young people deserve their reputation?
Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in front of an audience during the Edinburgh International Festival , speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and society.
Producer: David Stenhouse.
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Wed 31 Aug 201120:45
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