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What Are the Best Ways to Remember Our War Dead? [9min @ 18:35]

Journalist and author Ian Hislop joins a 45min roundtable discussion on the definition of Englishness, Iran's intellectual currents, and an actor's task in directing his first feature film, and talks about the new TV series he is presenting on Britain's Channel 4 called The Somme: Not Forgotten [starting at 30:45]. He talks about the astonishing stories he uncovered across Britain, of cowards and heroes and of the memorial plaques that we walk past every day and ignore. Host Andrew Marr also welcomes trend forecaster James Murphy; Professor Ricky Burdett, Director of the Cities Programme, London School of Economics; and psychoanalyst Margot Waddell.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Start the Week"