BBC RADIO 4 POINT OF VIEW
OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DECADES SARAH HAS BEEN A CULTURAL COMMENTATOR ON CURRENT EVENTS IN THE BBC’S ESTEEMED RADIO STRAND A POINT OF VIEW.
HERE ARE A FEW OF THE PROGRAMMES SHE WAS REPSONSIBLE FOR
The right side of history.
Sarah Dunant asks if we should judge the past by the standards of the present or future, as shifting social attitudes colour our view of how the past is portrayed.
The end of Row versus Wade in the USA.
Sarah Dunant relives a road trip she took 50 years ago, travelling across the USA at a time when Roe v Wade was the talk of America, and revolution was in the air.
The death of the Queen.
Sarah Dunant reflects on how the nature of fame has changed over the past seventy years.
Donatello and a new Renaissance.
Sarah Dunant points to the Renaissance master Donatello as a model for finding lessons worth learning from the past.
Demographic Meltdown.
Sarah Dunant reflects on shifting demographics and how the UK can solve the conundrum of an ageing population but falling birth rate.
The Tourist Trap.
As the growth in tourism makes some European cities almost unliveable, Sarah Dunant asks how we should manage the challenges of overtourism.
The Piano: A Lifetime of Wrong Notes.
Sarah Dunant asks: Is the tide finally turning for women in classical music?
The Strangeness of Dreams.
Sarah Dunant argues that - at a time when so much else in the world has been explained away - dreams remain one of the supreme mysteries of being human.
The Death and Life of Modern Martyrs.
As Putin's arch critic Alexei Navalny is buried, Sarah Dunant argues that Navalny's real power and influence may be only just beginning.
No Country for Old Men
Sarah Dunant reflects on America as a 'can do' nation as it confronts, for the first time in its history, the reality that she is no longer young.
Debating the American Future.
Sarah Dunant on why she'll be 'mainlining coffee and propping open my eyelids' in the early hours of next Wednesday morning.