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Naomi Alderman takes us back to the Protestant Reformation to explore the impact of the second great information crisis - the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century. Thanks to printing, more people than ever before could access, and form a personal and private relationship with, the Bible. This move to individualism is, she argues, echoed by our online behaviour today 'once we're able to access more information for ourselves ..we start to trust ourselves in new way'. Written and read by Naomi Alderman Produced by Di Speirs and Nicola Holloway.
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