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Four Thought.
By Uncle Monty.
Photos By Alex Albion.
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His white alabaster bust on the wide window sill was
obviously Ben Franklin, unless someone didn't know
who the Yankee was. Thus, The Benjamin Franklin
Room was named in honour of the man that I and
about 100 other radio guests had entered for the
evening recording of the BBC Radio
4 series "Four Thought."
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Noted Egyptian Writer Ahdaf Soueif. She
spoke authoratatively about the cultural impact
of the recent Egyptian Revolution against the
ousted longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak.
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First we all sat down at dressed tables of white
linen table clothes and white wine and cool
sparkling water inside the stately RSA House
as the four invited BBC Radio 4 speakers
prepared to tell us their stories, their views,
their thoughts, their ideas, their opinions, and
their personal experiences as the digital and
high-tech recording took place for broacast
at a later date all across the UK nation.
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Ngaire Woods, Professor of International
Political Economy at Oxford's University College,
ably chaired the "Four Thought" radio program.
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With intense attention, the approved audience
reacted with all manner of reactions and questions
to the various speakers they heard. The stately
Bejamin Franklin Room was alive and well with
laughter, with sighs, with respect, with queries,
and with thought provoking comments to the
presentation of the speakers, who each spoke
for about 15 to 20 minutes each.
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Tom Gill, Professor of Social Anthropology,
Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan.
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What was especially nice at "Four Thought"
was the opportunity of audience members to
get upclose to the speakers and to chat one-to-
one with them after their radio presentation.
They were uniformly so disarming and so
pleasent to first meet like Naomi Shragai,
who spoke of her marriage outside of her
American upbring inside traditional Judaism.
For years she's been a frequent visitor to
England and finally she married an Englishman
who wasn't particularly religious as a born
Anglican ...
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Naomi Shragai.
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Old Ben Franklin was surely impressed with
the quality and diversity of the speakers as
they were embraced by such an educated and
sophisticated audience of over 100 folkz ranging
from young professionals to upper middle class
ladies to wealthy retirees and to those of the social
elite. Yet, there was no snobbiness or put downs.
Everybody seemed to share a common goal - to
thoroughly enjoy the live experience of being
present at BBC Radio 4's "Four Thought."
And, most surely did ...
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Closing Moments of "Four Thought" ar RSA House.
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A Little View of Some of the Radio Audience.
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This recorded program will be broadcast on BBC Radio
4 tomorrow - March 9th, 2011, at 8:45PM.
http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/four-thought
4 tomorrow - March 9th, 2011, at 8:45PM.
http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/four-thought
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Have a super day, Uncle Monty.
+Shrove Tuesday, Madri Gras, Pancake Day
and Fat Tuesday, 2011.
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Images of Rough Sleepers.
Photo Essay By Alex Albion.
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