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Matthew Sweet

Jeffrey Richards

Tony Lidington

EO Wilson

Bryony Lavery

Jacqueline Smith

Free Thinking: Pantomime: Professor Jeffrey Richards; Bryony Lavery; EO Wilson

Pantomime: Professor Jeffrey Richards

17/12/2014

Pantomime: Professor Jeffrey Richards; Bryony Lavery; EO Wilson

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Pantomime: Professor Jeffrey Richards; Bryony Lavery; EO Wilson

Matthew Sweet and panto with Jeffrey Richards. Bryony Lavery on stage craft. E O Wilson.

Matthew Sweet and panto with Jeffrey Richards and actor/director Tony Lidington, Bryony Lavery between Treasure Island and 101 Dalmatians, biologist EO Wilson on the human miracle.

Matthew Sweet on Pantomime past to present writer Jeffrey Richards and actor/director Tony Lidington. Jeffrey Richards book is called The Golden Age of Pantomime: Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England.

Bryony Lavery talks stage writing ahead of her double-Christmas offerings of Treasure Island at the National Theatre in London and The One Hundred and One Dalmatians at Chichester's Festival Theatre.

American biologist EO Wilson puts humanity centre-stage in his new book The Meaning of Human Existence and explains why we'll never meet ET and gets ants to take a bow.

Producer: Jacqueline Smith

You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.

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