Free Thinking - Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant; Yuval Noah Harari.
Linda Grant's new novel depicts a TB clinic at the start of the NHS whilst Stephen Poliakoff's drama is set in a bombed out London hotel and explores debates about security.
A TB clinic in the countryside is the location of Linda Grant's new novel which follows a Jewish brother and sister from the East End who are sent to recover in an institution where the class divide persists even as the new National Health Service challenges this.
Stephen Poliakoff's new ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ drama series follows an intelligence officer whose final Army role is to ensure that cutting edge technology is made available to the British armed forces.
Philip Dodd discusses the period of immediate post-World War II with the two writers. He also talks to historian Yuval Noah Harari who has studied the history of humanity on the planet earth and who argues that the future holds a wider divide between the techno super rich who are looking to cheat death and the useless class who have been superseded by machines.
Close To The Enemy - a 7 part series written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff airs on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two this November.
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant is out now.
Yuval Noah Harari's books are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
Producer: Fiona McLean
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