Clare Allan: Liberation Through Lies
Novelist Clare Allan asks why lying gets such a bad press. The truth, she argues, can be far more dangerous.
Novelist Clare Allan asks why lying gets such a bad press. The truth, she argues, can be far more dangerous.
Can lies both liberate and illuminate? As a novelist she discusses how she takes full advantage of her position to tell stories, to invent the facts. But in so doing so, she says, fiction can lead us closer to the truth.
Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought provoking ideas and engaging storytelling.
Recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and society.
Producer: Giles Edwards.
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Four Thought
Series of thought-provoking talks on topics that affect culture and society.
