Thinking Allowed
Wednesday 16 November 2005
16:00-16:30
Presented by Laurie Taylor.
REMEBERING LENNON
This year marks the 25 th anniversary of the death of John Lennon and Radio 4 will be celebrating his life with a series of programmes. Laurie Taylor launches the 'Remembering Lennon' season with a discussion on how The Beatles kick-started the trend for fans to identify with particular band members.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Hunter Davies, biographer of The Beatles, Caspar Melville, former music journalist and academic and editor of the New Humanist, and Lynne Segal, professor of Psychology and Gender Studies to discuss how cultural role models have developed since then. Do we all need role-models at some time in our lives; and are some celebrities more suited to the job than others?