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The Forum (Interviews)

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KPCC 89.3 Sat, Jun 2 at 1:06am (Pacific)

About The Forum

Bridget Kendall presents an ideas discussion show which tackles the big questions of our age with some of the world's most eminent minds.

  • Bridget Kendall
  • Interviews , Art
  • English
  • BBC
  • London, United Kingdom
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Sat, May 19

Forum: Future Wars. Elizabeth Quintana, Elizabeth Moon, David Rodin. 19 May

Is this the war of the future? Robot spy planes as small as insects, drones that hover high overhead for days at a time, interfaces to plug a soldier's mind directly into a weapons system and lasers that could temporarily blind you. And if so, how much will all this alter the wars of the future? Bridget Kendall discusses the changing nature of warfare with Elizabeth Quintana, a specialist on aerial combat from the Royal United Services Institute in London; Elizabeth Moon, an award winning...
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Sat, May 12

Forum: Second Chances. Nick Danziger, Gish Jen, Van Phillips. 12 May 2012

When something goes wrong in your life - a loss, bereavement or bad mistake - what happens when you get another roll of the dice? This week the Forum explores second chances, filtered through three very different experiences: Nick Danziger is an award-winning British photojournalist, acclaimed for his portraits from war zones. He explains why he feels the need to track down people to photograph them again, and what happens when he gets there. Gish Jen is a Chinese-American novelist whose...
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Sat, May 5

Forum: Dark energy, history of everything and infinitesimals L Krauss, A De

Cosmology, particle physics, mathematics and theatrical performance all come together this week, as we look at the very smallest things in order to make sense of some of the biggest questions. Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss explains why the seemingly empty space that takes up so much of the universe is full of measurable energy. Theatre director Alexander Devriendt unveils the reasons for telling the history of the universe backwards, and slices of nothingness in mathematics with Ian Stewart: a...
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Sat, Apr 28

Forum: Aftermath. Sada Mire, Scott Gilmore, Rachel Cusk. 28 Apr 2012

When everything falls apart, how do you cope? How do you put a country and a people back together again after a traumatic conflict? And how do individuals come to terms with the end of a marriage? We hear from Somali archaeologist Sada Mire who argues food and shelter are not the only basic need for war victims: so is cultural heritage. Former Canadian diplomat Scott Gilmore warns that tackling social breakdown in the aftermath of war is failing because international aid programmes are too...
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Limits of Markets

Today
Free market: the best aid to development or a hydra that devalues everything it touches?

Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.

Sat, Jun 2