Stephen Hawking takes us inside black holes. And a Chinese dissident tells his story with encourage from Christian BaleThe Reith Lectures (Radio 4) | iPlayer[br]In Their Own Words (Amnesty International) | amnesty.org.uk
Trump and the Politics of Paranoia (Radio 4) | iPlayerThe Radio 4 Reith Lectures used to be such dry things. Perhaps it’s me that has changed,or perhaps the booking agent’s got more adventurous, but the final few – Aung San Suu Kyi, and Grayson Perry,Atul Gawande, now Stephen Hawking – have been proper crowd-pullers. When Hawking’s lecture was announced, or more than 20000 people applied for tickets to see him speak. “So I’m looking at 400 lucky people,” as Sue Lawley said in her introduction.
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