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Reimagining the Nation
Peter Pomerantsev looks at how a nation is forged by its media and what happens when it comes apart.
What keeps a nation together? For political scientist Benedict Anderson, it was the idea of the 'imagined community'. Although people from different backgrounds in a country might not know one another, they could imagine themselves as part of the same larger story.
Peter Pomerantsev looks at how we can survive as a society when the idea of the 'imagined community' is under strain. Is it too late to find any commonality? Or are there other ways of imagining the future of the nation?
Producer Ant Adeane
Editor Jasper Corbett
Last on
Sun 3 Oct 2021
21:30
±«Óãtv Radio 4
Broadcasts
- Mon 27 Sep 2021 20:30±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sun 3 Oct 2021 21:30±«Óãtv Radio 4
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Programme examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad.
