Naomi Klein to - The Shock Doctrine
Monday 10 September 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet is joined by writer and political activist Naomi Klein to discuss her new book, The Shock Doctrine. Klein debates her contention that for the last three decades, free marketeers have been exploiting moments of mass trauma like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina to usher in radical change.
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Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine
What links September 11 and the Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq? According to the campaigning anti-globalisation writer Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, all these events created a shock of which capitalism was quick to take advantage. She argues that the instinct to 'exploit trauma to create radical change' unites CIA experiments in electroshock and Latin American torture of socialists with the ways businesses have spread their influence in the wake of disasters. Naomi joins Matthew Sweet to explain her analysis; the economist and businessman John Kay begs to differ.
The Yacoubian Building
Matthew reviews a new film adaptation of The Yacoubian Building, a bestselling novel in the Arab world. Set in Cairo, the film tackles the vexed social issues facing Egypt today, from Islamic fundamentalism to homosexuality.
The Protestant Revolution
The historian Tristram Hunt tells Matthew why he thinks Protestantism is central to the creation of the modern world.
Henry Moore
On the eve of the first open-air exhibition of Henry Moore's sculptures in London, Night Waves visits Kew Gardens with Richard Wentworth and Derek Howarth, two of Moore's former sculptural assistants, to see the installation taking place.
Click hereto view the Night Waves Henry Moore gallery
