Melvyn Bragg talks to Gore Vidal and Alan Clarke about the future of the nation-state; is the concept dead and buried? And what is the relationship between politics and morality - have salaciousness and self-righteousness taken over where seriousness of intent and a strong nerve left off, or was it ever thus?
Guests: ‣ Gore Vidal, American writer, commentator and author of The Smithsonian Institution; ‣ Alan Clarke, historian, politician and author of The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-97.
First broadcast: 22 Oct #1998@iotime (p005456z) #History@iotime #20thCentury@iotime #Politics@iotime http://vk.com/wall-87835278_3