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En 1944, dans l’Australie encore en pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale, une bombe littéraire explose… mais pas avec des armes : avec des vers. Son nom ? Ern Malley. Un poète inconnu, fulgurant, “génial”. Sauf qu’il n’a jamais existé. Et c’est précisément ce qui va faire de cette hist ...  Show more

La “théorie de la vitre cassée”, ou “broken windows theory”, est une idée née en criminologie qui explique comment un environnement dégradé peut favoriser la délinquance. Elle repose sur un raisonnement simple : lorsqu’un lieu montre des signes visibles de désordre — une vitre ca ...  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