Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future

Malcolm Gladwell discusses the thinking behind precision bombing in the Second World War and the moral questions raised by the strategy, New Generation Thinker Sarah Jilani watches Satyajit Ray's Indian Bengali drama Jalsaghar, which depicts a landlord who would prefer to listen to music than deal with his flood ravaged properties. In her new novel, Jessie Greengrass imagines an England coping with rising water. Rana Mitter hosts.

Malcolm Gladwell's The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War is out now.

Jessie Greengrass's novel is The High House. You can hear her discussing a previous book Sight in the Free Thinking discussion on Motherhood.
https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3fjvg

Sarah Jilani researches post-colonial film and literature at the University of Cambridge. She is a 2021 New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who use their research to make radio programmes.

You might also be interested in Tariq Ali discussing the Satyajit Ray film Pather Panchali with Rana Mitter.
https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060zmjs
Ray was born on 2nd May 1921.

Producer Sofie Vilcins

Image: Malcolm Gladwell
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