Jonathan Healey, one of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, will  talk on Radio 3, Wednesday 7 November, 10.45-11.00pm questioning the value of lessons from history.

Jonathan Healey claims that lessons drawn from the past and applied to our own world are meaningless, despite what we are told by best-selling historians and television documentaries. He asserts that it is precisely because the past is so foreign that we are able to understand what is so unique about today.