Event 513
BBC Radio 4: Start the Week
Tom Sutcliffe with Antony Beevor, Susan Neiman and Natalie Haynes
– Exchange Marquee
Mythmaking at Hay Festival: from Medea to Rasputin. Tom Sutcliffe explores the power of mythmaking with three writers who challenge the stories we think we know. Historian Antony Beevor examines the invention and reinvention of the ‘mad monk’ Rasputin. Philosopher Susan Neiman questions the way politics is hijacking fundamental stories for its own ends. And classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes reimagines what Medea really thought of the two-timing Jason. Together they reveal how myths – old, new, personal and political – shape our understanding of the past and frame the battles of the present.
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