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The Reith Lectures: Archive 1976-2012Author: BBC Radio 4
Series of annual radio lectures on significant contemporary issues, delivered by leading figures from the relevant fields Language: en Genres: Government, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Civil and Uncivil Societies
Tuesday, 10 July, 2012
The historian Niall Ferguson examines institutions outside the political, economic and legal realms, whose primary purpose is to preserve and transmit particular knowledge and values. In a lecture delivered at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he asks if the modern state is quietly killing civil society in the Western world? And what can non-Western societies do to build a vibrant civil society?Producer: Jane Beresford.
