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Radio 3,25 Feb 2014,45 mins

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Danny Dorling

Free Thinking

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The film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is being turned into a musical which is getting its UK premiere this month. Samira Ahmed considers the scoundrel from Thomas Mann's The Adventures of Felix Krull to the David Niven film Bedtime Story, with historian of literature Nandini Das and novelist Nick Harkaway. Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. His new book called All That is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster looks at inequalities in the housing market. He joins Samira to discuss markets, social engineering and what houses are for. We report on the winner of this year's Paul Foot Award for campaigning or investigative journalism. Producer: Luke Mulhall.

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