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Free Thinking: The History of Pain, Martin Freeman as Richard III, Animal Rights

The History of Pain, Martin Freeman as Richard III, Animal Rights

09/07/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The History of Pain, Martin Freeman as Richard III, Animal Rights

With Philip Dodd. Includes Richard III, medical attitudes to pain and animal rights.

Presented by Philip Dodd. With a discussion about changing medical attitudes to pain, a review of Richard III starring Freeman and Alasdair Cochrane on animal rights.

Historian Joanna Bourke considers changing medical attitudes to pain. She's joined by Marion Coutts, who has written about her husband's death in The Iceberg, and by the comedian Arthur Smith. 

Should we equate animals with humans when talking about rights? New Generation Thinker Alasdair Cochrane argues for a shift in our thinking.

Philip Dodd is joined by political commentator Steve Richards to discuss the new production of Richard III which stars Martin Freeman and is set in the 1970s.

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