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A New Enlightenment: Full talk

On The Christopher Hitchens Platform, the subject is 'A New Enlightenment?' The panel - Stephen Fry, Bettany Hughes, Lawrence Krauss and Martin Rees, chaired by Hay Festival director Peter Florence - discuss the values of the Enlightenment and how to bring about its modern incarnation.

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Hay Festival—2017

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