The End of the Age of Ideas

from Four Thought · host BBC Radio 4

Robert Rowland Smith argues that we are coming to the end of the Age of Ideas. He examines how different 'ages' - of superstition, religion, reason and ideas - have emerged and gradually been eclipsed. And he hints at the age we may be about to enter.Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton.

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