Sunday Feature

MindMaps

Sunday 14 October 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

A series examining the ferment of ideas generated in a single city.

Duration:

45 minutes

Playlist:

3/3. Chicago: Factory of the Future

In series about how different cities have shaped our world, Felipe Fernández-Armesto probes the relationship between leading economists and political thinkers at the University of Chicago in the 1950s, including Milton Friedman and Leo Strauss, and the city itself.

George Steiner and Richard Sennett recall the Chicago of the time, and we learn how the celebration of individualism by some Chicago intellectuals contrasts starkly with other aspects of life in the Windy City.

Sunday Feature

Episode and Playlist Information

• 2 Dec 07 Liquid Living
• 25 Nov 07 Poetic World of Newt
• 18 Nov 07 As Big as Life
• 4 Nov 07 Elgar and Empire
• 28 Oct 07 Mind as Machine
• 21 Oct 07 After slavery
• 14 Oct 07 Chicago
• 7 Oct 07 Manchester
• 30 Sep 07 MindMaps
• 23 Sep 07 The Eternal Rock

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