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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside - Part 4

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Season 1985, Episode 300131009

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Doris Lessing, one of the century's greatest writers, addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions and inherited structures of unquestionable belief.

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