Textbook. So, when i refers to schulman, that is what i am talking about her tonight we are using the 1973 film soylent green, starring Charlton Heston as a window into both the Science Fiction film genre and into some of the most difficult domestic 1970s, wherethe all of the president ial administrations but for president jimmy carter. So that is why we are using soylent green. A quick synopsis. This film is set in a dystopian future. It is not a utopian ideal. Where everything is terrible. And the big problem is overpopulation. Lyw york city is wild overcrowded with the population of of Million People. By way of contrast, the Current Population of new york city is 8 million, five times the normal population of new york city. Which is outrageous. The Soylent Corporation oversees the citys food supply. So that is where we get our title soylent green, the food supply mostly consists of variouswafers kinds, dried vegetables, dried protein and so forth. The newest food the corporation is
Book you talk about the Golden Triangle of freedom. Your leaping right in, arent you . I have to tell you people always ask me how i write my books and with this book if you can keep it which is my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in a couple weeks but this book im talking about america and at the very heart of it is the Golden Triangle of freedom. But what i find funny is that i never heard of it, no ones ever heard of it. A number of years ago dear friend of mine Alec Guinness wrote a book calleda free peoples philistine. Again all founders understood this. Quickly its that freedom requires virtue. When we say freedom we mean selfgovernment requires a virtue. Virtue in turn requires faith and then faith in turn requires freedom. To explain it, the founder said they wrote this over and over and over. You cant have selfgovernment or actual freedom unless the people govern themselves, which is to say less the people have some semblance of virtue, you cant force people to go
I have to tell you, people always ask me how i write my books, and my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in just a couple of weeks, but for the last year ive been talking about america. And at the very heart of it is this concept of the Golden Triangle of freedom. Ut but what i find funny is that id never heard of it, no ones ever heard of it. Dear friend of mine Alec Guinness wrote a book calleda free peoples philistine. Every one of them understood this concept and i thought i have got to do more to get this out because one book comes out. I didnt know i would write a book about it, it ended up being a book, the Golden Triangle of freedom, can i explain briefly . All the founders understood this. Freedom requires virtue. We mean selfgovernment requires virtue, virtue requires faith and faith requires freedom. To explain it the founders said they wrote this over and over. You cant have selfgovernment, you cant have actual freedom unless people govern themselves which is to
Two minutes silence has been observed around the country for Armistice Day. It marked the moment in 1918 when the fighting came to an end in the first world war. There were ceremonies at the National Memorial arboretum in staffordshire, and at the cenotaph on whitehall in london, from where our correspondent Adina Campbell reports. As the crowds gathered into whitehall to the sound of the pipes, looming in front of them the stark cenotaph war memorial, a sobering reminder of the many lives lost in conflict. Big ben was also heard chiming, despite being silent for the last three months, due to repair work. Big ben chimes. Shortly after the two minutes silence, thousands of people watched on as pipes and drums from the london scottish regiment marched through whitehall in a captivating display. I thought it was really emotional because so many people died. Yes. Its a very good way to pay respects. Ive been thinking about the memorial coming back in 1920, thinking about the families that
If this isnt your thing we still have the biggest uk spoken word and poetry festival, attracting a Hollywood Star and some of the hottest fresh new talent. Also coming up some of the worlds finest ballet dancers come back to hull where they tipped their first dance steps. I dont understand how weve had so many amazing dancers come from hull, its quite incredible. We go behind the scenes as ours most controversial competition, the turner prize, goes to hull and we see what the public thinks of the shortlisted artists. It should be piled high, set alight. Hello and welcome to the show. This isa hello and welcome to the show. This is a hole for hull, huge art installation being installed here in front of hull minster. One of the many venues taking part in the festival. Have you got room in there for a little one . Whos the little one . Shes one of the headline acts here at britains biggest spoken word festival. Its called contains strom language, four days, 60 acts, if you thought poetry