Václav Havel on Politically-Dangerous Times - Audio Essay Edition

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English - October 08, 2020 02:00 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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In the second installment of our Audio Essay podcast, Robert Fay remembers August of 1968 when the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia. In that time of epic political turmoil, the Czech playwright Václav Havel, using imagination and his faith in writers and literature, took a surprising approach to the chaos and danger; an important model for our times. You can read a version of the essay here: https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/01/vaclav-havels-guide-to-politically-dangerous-times.html
Music attribution: “Sunday Smooth" by Scott Buckley, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - www.scottbuckley.com.au.