On Truth (Omnibus)

Are we suffering from an epidemic of truth decay?

Five writers and thinkers look to history and geography to investigate why.

Omnibus of five essays.

* Dr Kathryn Murphy on Sir Francis Bacon's 1620s essay, On Truth, and its striking contemporary parallels
* American writer Kurt Andersen traces America's long history of magical thinking, from the 1600s to the Trump presidency
* Juliet Samuel asks whether markets are giant truth-seeking mechanisms or irrational generators of bubbles
* Indian-born writer Pankaj Mishra considers the notion of Truth as perceived by the great Indian thinker and statesman, Mahatma Gandhi
* Philosopher Simon Blackburn offers a timely long view of the notion of Truth

Producer: Beaty Rubens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2018.