Undercurrents
Wednesday 21 June 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
On Night Waves Undercurrents tonight Susan Hitch and guests mark 25 years of HIV/AIDS
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On Night Waves Undercurrents tonight Susan Hitch and guests mark 25 years of HIV/AIDS by asking how, in addition to the tragedy of death and disease, the pandemic has changed our landscape. A quarter of a century after the first five cases were reported, what has AIDS taught us about the nature of panics and how has it changed our attitudes to illness, sex and the family? How has the ferocious spread of the disease in the developing world altered the West's attitude to it? And will it eventually lead to a revolution in religious teaching?
Susan Hitch is joined by writer Adam Mars Jones, sociologist Frank Furedi, journalist and author Simon Garfield, anthropologist Kit Davies and journalist and writer Peter Gill for Night Waves Undercurrents as they discuss AIDS and its consequences, here on BBC Radio 3.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Monopolies of Loss - a collection of stories which Adam Mars-Jones wrote in response to the AIDS crisis is published by Faber (1992)
Simon Garfield’s The End of Innocence; Britain in the Time of AIDS is published by Faber (1994)
Peter Gill’s Body Count is published by Profile Books (2006)
