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Radio 3,15 Apr 2015,45 mins

Violence in Culture

Free Thinking

Available for over a year

With a raft of new books being published, Philip Dodd considers violence in culture and our relationship with it. His guests are crime writer and former barrister Frances Fyfield, Professor of Twentieth Century History at University of York Richard Bessel, Forensic Psychiatrist Mayura Deshpande, and the writer Peter Stanford. Producer: Ella-mai Robey Violence: A Modern Obsession by Richard Bessel is published 23 April 2015 Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle by Peter Stanford is out now Casting the First Stone by Frances Fyfield is available in paperback.

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