A Norwegian Morality Tale
New Generation Thinker Lucy Weir's Essay looks at a 1990s music cult that resulted in church fires and deaths involving band members - a dark tale of excess and moral panic.
Eight churches were set on fire, and a taste for occult rituals and satanic imagery spiralled into suicide and murder in the Norwegian Black metal scene of the 1990s. Lucy Weir looks at the lessons we can take from this dark story about the way we look at mental health and newspaper reporting.
Producer: Emma Wallace
Dr Lucy Weir is a specialist in dance and performance at the University of Edinburgh. You can hear her discussing the impact of Covid on dance performances in this Free Thinking discussion about audiences /programmes/m000nvlc and her thoughts on dance and stillness /programmes/m000k33s
She is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by 大象传媒 Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with academics to turn their research into radio.
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