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Double Lives
From undercover field operatives to online anonymity, via lives led in the closet and large scale infidelity, Matthew Sweet discusses the what can prompt people to lead double lives.
With:
Ashleigh Percival-Borleigh, Radio 4 New Generation Thinker, former soldier and historian, researching the lives of under-cover agents during WW2
Lawrence Scott, literary critic and commentator on social media and the double lives people lead online
Peter Parker, historian of gay life in Britain before homosexuality was decriminalized, has documented decades of lives lived in the closet
Clare Carlisle, philosopher and biographer of Soren Kierkegaard, who thought there’s always a difference between our inner selves and the face we present to the world
Plus the actress Ruth Wilson, whose 2018 drama Mrs Wilson unraveled the story of her own grandfather's multiple lives
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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From undercover field operatives to online anonymity, via lives led in the closet and large scale infidelity, Matthew Sweet discusses the what can prompt people to lead double lives.
With:
Ashleigh Percival-Borleigh, Radio 4 New Generation Thinker, former soldier and historian, researching the lives of under-cover agents during WW2
Lawrence Scott, literary critic and commentator on social media and the double lives people lead online
Peter Parker, historian of gay life in Britain before homosexuality was decriminalized, has documented decades of lives lived in the closet
Clare Carlisle, philosopher and biographer of Soren Kierkegaard, who thought there’s always a difference between our inner selves and the face we present to the world
Plus the actress Ruth Wilson, whose 2018 drama Mrs Wilson unraveled the story of her own grandfather's multiple lives
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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