Event 566
BBC Radio 4: Free Thinking
Matthew Sweet with Tom Holland, Adam Greenfield, Guto Harri, and Sophie Scott-Brown
– Exchange Marquee
Political power can take many forms, from the top-down model of the Roman Empire, to operating in the democratic politics of today, to the possibilities offered by new technologies for more horizontal power structures in the future.
Matthew Sweet is joined by historian Tom Holland, whose new translation of Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars examines Roman power politics from the inside; former Number 10 Communications Director Guto Hari; Adam Greenfield, whose book Lifehouse looks at local networks of mutual aid that have emerged in response to climate crisis; and political philosopher Sophie Scott-Brown, whose book The Radical Fifties: Activist Politics in Cold War Britain is out in July.
Matthew Sweet is joined by historian Tom Holland, whose new translation of Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars examines Roman power politics from the inside; former Number 10 Communications Director Guto Hari; Adam Greenfield, whose book Lifehouse looks at local networks of mutual aid that have emerged in response to climate crisis; and political philosopher Sophie Scott-Brown, whose book The Radical Fifties: Activist Politics in Cold War Britain is out in July.
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