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Boundaries

We live in an age when we are witnessing the end of globalisation and renewed calls to wall-off so many things, from national borders to the internet. In this programme we look at some of the new barriers springing up in the real and digital worlds.

Photo: A country fence (麻豆社)

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Wed 21 Oct 2015 01:06GMT
麻豆社 World Service Australasia

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Andrei Soldatov

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist whose latest book with co-author Irina Borogan 聽'The Red Web' outlines the struggle between Russia鈥檚 digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries.

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair is a British writer, poet and filmmaker, long associated with psycho-geography, the study of the effects of the geographical environment on people's emotions and behaviour. His latest book 'London Overground' is an account of a one-day walk around the circuit of an elevated railway.

Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle is an American clinical psychologist and professor of the social studies of Science and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Her latest book is 'Reclaiming Conversation - The Power of Talk in a Digital Age'.

60 Second Idea to Change the World

60 Second Idea to Change the World

Iain Sinclair argues that we should be forced to spend one hour a day on a real or imagined journey, routinely going to the same places in our mind or physically.

Photo: Shan Pillay

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  • Mon 19 Oct 2015 01:06GMT
    麻豆社 World Service except Australasia
  • Tue 20 Oct 2015 08:06GMT
    麻豆社 World Service
  • Wed 21 Oct 2015 01:06GMT
    麻豆社 World Service Australasia

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