In Our Time: Elizabeth Anscombe

In 1956 Oxford University awarded an honorary degree to the former US president Harry S Truman for his role in ending the Second World War. One philosopher, Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001), objected strongly. She argued that although dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have ended the fighting, it amounted to the murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians. It was therefore an irredeemably immoral act. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher