Towards the Light
Jacques Darras explores how Medieval Irish monks hold the key to a United Europe in his fifth and final Reith lecture.
French poet Jacques Darras delivers his final Reith Lecture from his series entitled 'Beyond the Tunnel of History'.
In his fifth and final Reith Lecture entitled 'Towards the Light', Jacques Darras finds a clue to our shared European future in an early cross-Channel cultural interaction: the 'School of Light'. The school was established by Irish monks in the medieval city of Laon and Jacque Darras explains that learning from the past will allow us to create a unified Europe.
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- Wed 20 Dec 1989 09:0091热爆 Radio 4
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