i've always thought of free of democracy as being like the town square. The ability to have the argument is what i would call freedom. In dictatorships, the first thing that happens is people shut down the argument. And so i think there'sthere the the argumentome crosses into two or three different arguments,. You i thinkt the question of power, the question of being able to enter other realities and how do you do that?
For this archive episode from 2021, journalist and BBC News broadcaster Razia Iqbal is joined by the acclaimed author Salman Rushdie to discuss his cultural touchstones. The conversation focuses on topics such as his love of James Joyce, Bob Dylan and his affection for an amulet his father gave him as a young boy.
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