Gut instinct
New Generation Thinkers Elsa Richardson, Brendan McGeever and editor of the Skeptic, Michael Marshall, join Matthew Sweet for a conversation about how we judge actions and truth.
The Skeptic editor, Michael Marshall, talks to Matthew Sweet about how we judge actions and truth. They're joined by New Generation Thinkers Elsa Richardson, who is a historian of the emotions at the University of Strathclyde working on a popular history of the gut-brain connection and digestion more widely, and Brendan McGeever, who teaches on sociology, racism and anti-Semitism at Birkbeck, University of London.
Producer: Julian Siddle
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- Thu 22 Jun 2023 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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