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Episode 4
Polar adventurer Erling Kagge explores how philosophers from Aristotle to Kant have thought about silence.
Read by Cal MacAninch
“We live in the age of noise. Silence is almost extinct.â€
Adventurer Erling Kagge - the first person to reach the ‘three poles’ of North, South and the summit of Everest - explores the power of silence, considering how philosophers from Aristotle to Kant have thought about it.
Read by Cal MacAninch
Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie
Last on
Fri 1 Feb 2019
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