Actor Robert Llewellyn campaigns to persuade the residents of the village in the Cotswolds where he has made his home to generate more of their own energy through renewable sources.
Prof Richard Clay explores how Utopian visions start as blueprints for a fairer world and asks if they can lead to real change. He argues that such visions have been a way of criticising the present.
Utopia has been imagined in many different ways, but when people try to build it they very often fail. Can utopian visions reconcile the tension between the individual and the group? Rules and freedom?
Is Utopia, ultimately, a state of mind? Can we find it within ourselves? Richard seems answers in a broad range of art forms from music to poetry, opera to computer games.
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