Listen to this 'Free to Speak' edition of 'Culture Shock'


As basic human needs are being met in more and more countries, the issue of choice has come to the fore.

Compulsion and scarcity have been replaced by numerous and often confusing options.

What is the link between being free to speak and the freedom of choice?

Tim Marlow is joined by Martin Raymond, founder and director of the Future Laboratory, business strategist and enterpreneur Tim Jackson, and Jennifer Woodard Maderazo, communications consultant and blogger from San Francisco.




Listen to this 'Free to speak' edition of On Screen


On Screen talks to the British director Michael Winterbottom whose recent films have taken on politically sensitive subjects including America's War on Terror in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Since the release of the Bosnian War drama Welcome to Sarajevo in 1997, Winterbottom and producer Andrew Eaton have made 11 films in 10 years.

Other collaborations include In This World which looked at Afghan refugees coming to Britain, The Road to Guantanamo based on the true story of three British prisoners incarcerated by the American government in Cuba and 9 Songs, one the most sexually graphic movies ever passed by the UK censors.

Their most recent film A Mighty Heart - starring Angelina Jolie - was based on the real life story of the American journalist Daniel Pearl who was murdered in Pakistan just after 9/11