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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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RICHARD WAGNER
Richard Wagner, perhaps more than any other composer, would seem to capture the greatest triumphs and most terrifying excesses of the German spirit.
He lived as modern Germany was being born and his republicanism led to exile and nearly execution. He was a mentor of Nietzsche and a disciple of Schopenhauer and changed the face of opera perhaps more than any other single person.
Wagner conducted several orchestras and numerous affairs, suffered poverty and rejection but was finally showered with wealth by King Ludwig II. When the Nazis played his music in the death camps was it a fitting tribute to a gross anti-Semite or a travesty for a man who believed in redemption through love and social equality?
We ask to what extent can Wagner be typified as demonstrating the German spirit and what were his views on the function of art?
Guests
John Deathridge
King Edward the Seventh Professor of Music, Kings College London
Lucy Beckett
Author of Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Michael Tanner
Philosopher and author of Wagner and Nietzsche
Next programme: Cultural Imperialism
An empire rests on many things: powerful armies, good administration and strong leadership but perhaps its greatest weapon lies in the domain of culture. Culture governs every aspect of our lives: our dress sense and manners, our art and architecture, our education, law and philosophy. To govern culture, it seems, is to govern the world. But what is cultural imperialism? Can it be distinguished from cultural influence? Does it really change the way we think and should we try to prevent it even if it does? Guests: Linda Colley, School Professor of History at the London School of Economics; Phillip Dodd, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts; and Mary Beard, Reader in Classics at Cambridge University and author of The Parthenon.
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