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The Artist and Politics

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Peter Porter

Clive James and Peter Porter return to discuss the relationship of the artist to politics, from the age of Plato until recent times.

 

 


Programme 1

Date of Show: Sat, August 14, 2004

Classical Greece and Rome.

Programme 2
Date of Show: Sat, August 21, 2004

The Renaissance artist and the Enlightened despot.

Programme 3
Date of Show: Tue, September 28, 2004

The poet takes sides: the English Revolution and the French Revolution.

Programme 4
Date of Show: Sat, October 02, 2004

Writers and Revolution: from the French Revolution to Charles Dickens.

Programme 5
Date of Show: Sat, October 23, 2004

The artist as reformer and propagandist: from Shaw to Orwell and Auden.

Programme 6
Date of Show: Sat, October 30, 2004

Getting it wrong: from Thomas Mann to George W. Bush.

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