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Cultural success and the Aboriginals

Will Self seeks out imaginative spaces with which to counterpoint the confinement of quarantine and ponders what lessons Aboriginal culture might have for the days of pandemic.

"I can't have been alone among those quarantined these past few weeks," writes Will Self, "in seeking out the greatest imaginative spaces with which to counterpoint my confinement."
Courtesy of Google Earth, Will sets out to simulate a trip he was planning to make to central Australia and ponders what lessons Aboriginal culture might have for the days of pandemic.

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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9 minutes

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Sun 3 May 2020 08:48

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  • Fri 1 May 2020 20:50
  • Sun 3 May 2020 08:48

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