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Radio 4,19 Mar 2008,30 mins
Scottish Independence - Viewing the Recently Dead: Feedback
Thinking AllowedAvailable for over a year
SCOTLAND INDEPENDENCE Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Murray Pittock the author of a new book ‘The Road To Independence? Scotland Since the Sixties’ and Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government at Oxford University, to consider the reasons behind the rise of Scottish nationalism since the end of World War Two and to find out if the next step on the road will be a vote for full independence. VIEWING THE RECENTLY DEAD - FEEDBACK Anthropologist, Adam Kuper discusses last week’s responses on the cultural differences in the manner in which we choose to view the bodies of the dead.
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