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Last broadcast on Sun, 1 Nov 2009, 09:05 on BBC World Service.
Synopsis
THE FORUM - A World Of Ideas - presented by BRIDGET KENDALL.
This week we look at three social 'outlaws' – the guerrilla, the revolutionary and the human cannibal – and challenge our beliefs about them.
Australian academic and counter terrorism advisor to the US government DAVID KILCULLEN asserts that the ‘accidental guerrilla’ is the key to understanding the anti-Western insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Historian ROBERT SERVICE devotes a new biography to Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky, but claims it’s time to strip him of his heroic status.
And Romanian political scientist CATALIN AVRAMESCU believes we should reinstate the idea of the human cannibal, though in theory rather than in practice.
IN STUDIO
From left to right: Bridget Kendall, Catalin Avramescu and Robert Service
RECORDING THIS WEEK'S FORUM
60 SECOND IDEA TO CHANGE THE WORLD
In our 60 Second Idea To Change The World, CATALIN AVRAMESCU sends us on a quest to pick a fruit and then eat it. A task like this would allow us to reflect on our deeper relationship with nature.
THIS WEEK'S ILLUSTRATION
Challenging beliefs about the cannibal, the guerrilla and the revolutionary. By Tim Franklin
IN NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAMME
Next week the programme is devoted to the year 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, with eyewitness memories and analysis of before, during and after.
Broadcast
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Sun 1 Nov 200909:05
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