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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A Plate of Pfeffernusse
A Lump of Coal and a Black Bun
Taking Time
Dearly Beloved
The Usefulness of Pessimism
On the Curiosity of Children
10,000 Steps
The Strangeness of Dreams
Material World
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Red Squirrel Good?
On Deer Stalking
No News Is Good News
The Piano: A Lifetime of Wrong Notes
Mixed Signals
The Wink of Dishonour
In the Spite House
My Love Affair with the Mysterious
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