Adam Gopnik warns of our tendency to normalise evil behaviour. What may pass for entertainment in Mafia movies, must be seen through a different lens in real life.
"The risk of crime is not crime alone, but the abyss that opens at our feet when once we have decided that the rules that count for other people don't count for us."
Producer: Sheila Cook Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Liam Morrey Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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Democracy is not in crisis
Tackling homelessness
What Would Darwin Do?
Get Mad, Then Get Over It!
After the Fire
Automation...and a packet of frozen peas
On Holding Forth
Brexit: Failure to compromise
Where there's muck there's art
So Many Kinds of Britons: Who Knew?
A Sense of Chaos
Calling a spade a spade
Cookery shows...and hungry people
Humour that's worth its name
The Organ Recital
The Sea Is Back
The trouble with referendums
Brexit and the English Revolution
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