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The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds in the world. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. |
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THE SOUL
In his poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ WB Yeats wrote:
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
This week on In Our Time we will be discussing the Soul. For Plato it was the immortal seat of reason, for Aristotle it could be found in plants and animals and was the essence of every being - but it died when the body died.
For some it is the fount of creativity, for others the spark of God in man. What is the soul made of and where does it live? Is it the key to our individuality as humans? And when we die will our souls find paradise or purgatory, rebirth, resurrection or simply annihilation?
With us to discuss the soul are:
Richard Sorabji, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College
Ruth Padel, poet and author of In and Out of the Mind: Tragic Images of Self and Body
Martin Palmer, Theologian and Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture.
Next programme: The American West
From the Gold Rush to Boot Hill, from John Wayne to Sitting Bull the American west has spawned an iconography as rich as any but why did Americans give up everything to head West? What did they find when they got there? And how have the wagon trains affected the American psyche to this day?
With Melvyn to discuss The American West will be Frank Mclynn, Visiting Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Strathclyde, Jenni Calder, writer and author of There must be a Lone Ranger, and Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art and author of Spaghetti Westerns.
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