Melvyn Bragg

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958 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 17 Sep

Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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In Our Time · Archive: Plato's Republic · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

So let's look at this question. voice-verified

He says, I'm not looking at individuals, but looking at the state. voice-verified

First of all, let's get a good state. voice-verified

And this is a good state. voice-verified

And he tries to tell us what he does tell us, what he thinks a good state is. voice-verified

Can you give us the bare bones of that? voice-verified

But before I go into the next question, he makes a match. voice-verified

The state is, as you said, in three parts, and each has to do its job and be kept in equilibrium. voice-verified

The guardians, voice-verified

it were, the rulers, the philosophers, the auxiliaries, the police, the army, and so on, and the producers, the appetite. voice-verified

And similarly with the mind, there's the reason, and then there's the spirit, and then there's the soul. voice-verified

So these three are supposed to be in balance inside. voice-verified

Would you go along with that? voice-verified

He uses two or three very powerful stories in this, and one of them is the story of the ring. voice-verified

Can you tell us how that voice-verified

Which is sort of what Andrew was saying in Harry Marks, voice-verified

enough, you can get away voice-verified

Can we take that state idea on a little because Plato and Socrates, through Socrates, makes a big thing of it. voice-verified

Angie Hobbes, one of the things about the ideal state is that it's ruled by philosophers. voice-verified

I'm faced by three philosophers, so there's not much disagreement there, I suppose. voice-verified

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