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Series of thought-provoking talks on topics that affect culture and society.

Series of thought-provoking talks in which the speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect culture and society

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Four Thought: Series 4

Four Thought: Series 4: Episode 74: Esther Woolfson

Esther Woolfson

Episode 74

Episode 74: Esther Woolfson

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Esther Woolfson controversially argues it may be time to stop owning pets?

Esther Woolfson draws on a life sharing a house with a menagerie of different creatures to consider whether it is time to rethink our relationship with pets.

Is it time to radically re-think pet ownership? In this highly challenging and thought provoking Four Thought the writer Esther Woolfson argues that a lifetime spent sharing her home with a variety of birds and animals - rook, magpie, crow, starling, canaries, parrots, rats and rabbits - has led her to understand just how little we really know about the capacities and feelings of other beings. Pushing us to consider why we own pets in the first place Esther's talk promises to have you looking at Rover, Ginger, Fluffy or Socks in a whole new light.

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