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Inheritance

Why does inheritance arouse such powerful emotions? Jo Fidgen explores how the concept raises fundamental questions about duty, the family and equality.

Why does inheritance arouse such powerful emotions? Family, death and money make for gripping stories - just ask Tolstoy, Austen or Dickens - but our attitudes also reflect the way we feel about society, the state, and even ourselves.

Discussions tend to dissolve into rows about levels of tax but in this programme Jo Fidgen explores the values and intuitions that underpin our strength of feeling.

Producer: Joe Kent.

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30 minutes

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Sun 21 Feb 2016 21:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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