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Night Waves - Richard Overy

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Isabel Hilton talks to 20th-century historian Richard Overy on his book about Britain between the First and Second World Wars, The Morbid Age. Overy argues that the 1930s were responsible for many of the most important ideas of the modern world, including eugenics, Freud's theories on the unconscious and the nature of modern government.