PMM
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Wole Soyinka
Apr 08, 2004, 02:31
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My batterd old car has no aerial. For some reason, the only station it will pick up with anything like clarity is Radio 4. Fine by me, although I find some of it a bit boring sometimes. I'm so glad the usual family fare of chart and adverts is reduced to an intermittent crackle.
Anyway, there's an annual series of lectures called the Reith lectures, named after the BBCs first director general.
This years lecturer is a Nigerian guy called Wole Soyinka, and he's been talking about the Climate of fear.
For half an hour each evening, he's explaining that 9-11 didn't change the world - it's just a continuation of the state's/pseudostate's inhumanity to man. He spent several years in solitary confinement for daring to use art to defy the state, and a lot of what he has to say is with reference to what Fear does to creativity. Creativity being at the very heart of what makes us human.
You'll find all the links via this link...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/index.shtml?logo
I think it's on all week. Hope you get to catch some of it.
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Rhiannon
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Re: Wole Soyinka
Apr 08, 2004, 09:37
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sounds excellent PMM.
On on wednesday nights and repeated Saturdays.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Wole Soyinka
Apr 08, 2004, 12:00
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Yeah, interesting stuff. I loved the american asking him at the end whether unilateral action was altight. She framed the question in such a way that it sounded like it was what he had been arguing for. Soon put her in her place.
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BlueAstronaut
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Re: Wole Soyinka
Apr 09, 2004, 03:08
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Thanks PMM. I just printed the first lecture out. Going to go get a smoke and read it.
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PMM
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Re: Wole Soyinka
May 06, 2004, 02:27
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For those that missed this, all 5 lectures are available in mp3 format from this link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2004/mp3.shtml
right click to save or left click to play.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Wole Soyinka
May 06, 2004, 09:27
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I need to listen to the repeats to get a full grasp on what he's on about. Fab stuff. (Lots of angry Americans in the open questions bit.)
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Ratshag
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Re: Wole Soyinka
May 06, 2004, 12:40
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Read some of his plays too
To Zia With Love is good, as is his version of The Bacchae
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PMM
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breaking news...
May 15, 2004, 14:17
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Mr Soyinka has been detained by Nigerian police at an anti government rally. no further details are available just yet.
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TomBo
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Re: breaking news...
May 28, 2004, 17:25
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_759176,001100040004.htm
looks like they let him go... anyone know any more?
his Reith lectures were superb, not just the tell-it-like-it-is nature of the subject matter, but also the way that he wasn't afraid to break out of the academic style by reciting his poetry
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TomBo
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Re: breaking news...
May 28, 2004, 17:29
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1218665,00.html
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