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25/05/2009

Andrew Marr's guests include Harvard politics professor Michael Sandel, novelist Giles Foden, developmental psychologist Bruce Hood and the astronomer Carolin Crawford.

Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include Harvard politics professor Michael Sandel, who gives this year's Reith Lectures on A New Citizenship, addressing the 'prospect for a new politics of the common good'.

Plus novelist Giles Foden on his new book Turbulence, the developmental psychologist Bruce Hood on why he thinks we all have a 'supersense', the propensity to believe in the supernatural, and astronomer Carolin Crawford on the science and beauty of nebulae.

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Mon 25 May 200921:30
BBC Radio 4

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