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"Courage," said John Wayne, with predictable use of metaphor, "is being scared to death...and saddling up anyway." When you think about this, it is difficult to distinguish that most widely praised of virtues from reckless idiocy. Downloads and more...
James Frey - reads from his new novel. Geoffrey Blainey - with new insights into Captain Cook. Rajendra Pachauri - on climate change. Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz joins Naomi Klein - to talk economics and power. Gerard Henderson - on Why Menzies Matters.
Anna Funder shot to international prominence with the publication of her 2003 book "Stasiland", about the East German secret police, and the attempts of some brave citizens to resist their oppressors. Now working on a novel, the author has taken time out to write and deliver the final of the 2008 PEN International Voices lecture series. Her essay is about Courage.
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