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L’expression peut sembler absurde, presque ironique. Pourtant, elle a bien existé. Entre les années 1960 et 1990, en pleine Apartheid, l’Afrique du Sud a créé un statut officiel appelé “Blanc honoraire”. Une invention révélatrice des contradictions d’un système fondé sur la sépar ...  Show more

Après un événement traumatisant — attentat, catastrophe, accident — certaines personnes ressentent une envie accrue de proximité physique, parfois jusqu’au désir sexuel. Ce phénomène, parfois appelé « terror sex », n’a rien d’irrationnel : il s’explique par des mécanismes biologi ...  Show more

In the US, the 1960s were a crucible of culture -- college students, veterans, the disadvantaged and activists across the country sought to overthrow the status quo and build their own vision of a better world. This period in time produced some of the most influential art, music ...  Show more

In 1968, Jingyu Li and her parents were among hundreds of thousands of Chinese people sent to labour camps during Mao Zedong’s so-called cultural revolution.The aim was to re-educate those not thought to be committed to Chairman’s Mao drive to preserve and purify communism in Chi ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from 1966, setting communists against each other, to renew the revolution that he feared had become too bourgeois and to remove his enemies and rivals. Universities closed and the students for ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from 1966, setting communists against each other, to renew the revolution that he feared had become too bourgeois and to remove his enemies and rivals. Universities closed and the students for ...  Show more