Peter Hitchens and David Edgar Chaired by Stephen Law

Journalist and author Peter Hitchens debates his view that Britain has undergone a damaging cultural revolution since the 1960s with playwright David Edgar.

In The Abolition of Britain, Hitchens identifies everything that he feels has gone wrong with Britain since the Second World War and makes the case for the ‘many millions who feel that they have become foreigners in their own land and wish with each succeeding day that they could turn the clock back’. Hitchens focuses on the effects of television culture, increasingly liberal attitudes to sex and drugs, a loss of deference, and the corruption and decay of the English language.

Hitchens is also author of The Rage Against God and The War We Never Fought.

Edgar is a British playwright and writer who has had more than 60 of his original plays, adaptations and translations performed at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company (including Destiny, Pentecost and Written on the Heart) and around the world. His recent work includes an adaptation of A Christmas Carol, a reworking of his 1983 play about political defection, Maydays, and an autobiographical solo show, Trying it On, which continues its British tour later this year.

Discussions are chaired by Dr Stephen Law, philosopher, editor of The Royal Institute of Philosophy Journal Think – Philosophy for Everyone and author of The Philosophy Gym and The Complete Philosophy Files.