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A Common Ground

A Common Ground

FromThe Reith Lectures


A Common Ground

FromThe Reith Lectures

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Dec 21, 1971
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The British academic and Assistant Director General of UNESCO Richard Hoggart explores the concepts of communication in his Reith lecture series entitled 'Only connect'.

In this lecture entitled 'Common Ground', Richard Hoggart evaluates the role of passing information to each other via a system of communication. He asks, now that we have developed at an almost unbelievable speed, what happens next? Are we really more in touch now than previously? How will new technologies bring us closer? Centralised mass societies are keen to show they understand the human scale but can human societies remember to interact with each other in a fundamentally kind and moral way?
Released:
Dec 21, 1971
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series