A Point of View - It's Always the Others Who Die
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Will Self reflects that our modern, secular society has silenced the voices of the dead. As a result, he argues, we fail to appreciate the sacred buildings, art and literature of the past.
"Having purged them on the basis that they can furnish no proof of their existence, do we not begin to undermine the capacity of that which they have left behind to also speak to us?"
Producer: Sheila Cook.
Published on Friday, 6th December 2013.
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