Saturday Extra with Geraldine Doogue
Radio National 7:30 - 9am Saturday and always online http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/
Pre-Christmas can be great fun, but also a time for 'comparing and contrasting' how much we can spend on presents and parties versus our mates: it's a status thing. And our guest this weekend, the philosopher Alain de Botton, thinks it's absolutely full of rich material about our times: how our so-called flat society, devoid of a class system, creates its own hierarchies which are much more subtle and can prompt constant discontent. But understand what's quietly underway and you might well live much more happily - he'll tell us why.
Also one of the most respected international analysts Walter Russell Mead on why events in Egypt, a genuine revolution before-our-eyes with all the usual attendant chaos, confirm where the Arab Spring is heading.
Plus one of Australia's senior bureaucrats over many years, Paul McClintock, stepping down as operational head of COAG, on what we, as a nation, still need to achieve.
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Lindsay Fox getting Asia and Australia moving http://bit.ly/QbOC1f
Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh http://bit.ly/R0wb0L
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