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Radio 4,02 Nov 2009,45 mins

02/11/2009

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Andrew Marr discusses memory, secrets, failed states and snobbery with his guests. Academic Viktor Mayer-Schonberger talks about his new book Delete - the dangers of remembering in the digital age. Director Daniel Kramer talks secrets, psychology and the accessability of opera as his new production of Bluebeard opens at the ENO. Clare Lockhart, Director of the Institute for State Effectiveness, talks about how to fix failed states by building markets, and Quentin Letts gives his thesis on how snobbery will save us.

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