Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey

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Sara Pascoe explores our modern social world through theories of evolutionary psychology

Stand-up comedy. Sara Pascoe explores our modern social world through theories of evolutionary psychology

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Why do we have such a visceral reaction when someone intrudes on our personal space?

Sara investigates why we have such a visceral reaction when someone intrudes on our personal space? From 2018.

How does our monkey past influence our modern lives and how come we can still get emotionally hijacked by our primitive emotions?

Sara Pascoe investigates - Territory. 

It's a vital resource and we live on a crowded planet but why do have such a visceral reaction when someone intrudes on our personal space? 

From the bigger picture concepts of colonialism and national borders, to how you divide your shared bedroom, to the physical limits of our own bodies, this is a frank, funny look at how our evolutionary history shapes the way we see and move through the world. 

Recorded on location at The Freud Museum in London.

Written by and starring Sara Pascoe

Producer: Alexandra Smith

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2018.

Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey: Series 1

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Sara Pascoe explores our modern social world through theories of evolutionary psychology.

Stand-up comedy. Sara Pascoe explores our modern social world through theories of evolutionary psychology.

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