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8 April 2018 — BBC Sunday Sequence

In 2016, the Oxford English Dictionary, for the first time, published an entry for “post-truth”, to describe an era where popular thought no longer subscribes to a notion of truth. With the hosts of BBC Sunday Sequence, Dr Guinness considers the shift in modern thought that such a word intimates, the vital importance of maintaining a societal value for truth, and the natural repercussions in dispensing of truth.