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Setting the week's cultural agenda.
26 June 2006
This week Andrew Marr is joined by Zoe Neill Readhead, Lois Oliver, Jesse Norman and David Mepham.
Summerhill School is 85 years old this year, yet its philosophy - a free school where the pupils are equal in status to the teachers and lessons are optional - is yet to catch on. It's one of only two such schools in the UK and ZOË NEILL READHEAD, the daughter of the school's founder, is the current Principal. She discusses the theories behind the educational example that the school is still trying to promote. Summerhill and A S Neill is edited by Mark Vaughan and published by Open University Press.
Asked to describe the archetypal artist, we would probably think of a bohemian type, quirkily dressed, with unusual ideas about life and a tendency to be a bit different. But where did this characterisation come from? A new exhibition at the National Gallery looks into the roots of the image of the Artist. LOIS OLIVER is one of the curators of the new exhibition, Rebels and Martyrs, which shows how the image we know today began with Romanticism. Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century is at the National Gallery from 28 June to 28 August.
With Tony Blair seeing in his tenth year at No 10, what can the Tories do to gain back long-lost ground - and get back into office? Executive Director of the think tank Policy Exchange and one-time philosophy professor JESSE NORMAN thinks he knows. And he's called it Compassionate Conservatism, the title of his new publication about finding an intellectual basis for a new kind of centre right politics. Compassionate Conservatism: What It is, Why We Need It by Jesse Norman and Janan Ganesh is published by Policy Exchange.
Last year saw the discussion of Africa: it was the focus of the G8 summit and Make Poverty History. But a crucial element was missing from these discussions, says DAVID MEPHAM from the IPPR, and that was China 's involvement in Africa. He explains why the issue of China in Africa cannot be ignored. The IPPR conference, The Role of China in Africa, is on Wednesday 28 June, 9.30am - 6.00pm at Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London.
Next week: Michael Nyman
Ian Wilmut
Dominic Streatfeild
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