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Dane Baptiste curates a week of programmes that explores our desire for pleasure

Comedian Dane Baptiste curates a week of programmes that explores our desire for pleasure - even when it's denied.

The Pleasure Principle: Exchanges at the Frontier

23/07/2018

Exchanges at the Frontier

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Pleasure Principle, Exchanges at the Frontier

Dane Baptiste introduces a programme exploring pleasure, philosophy and neuroscience.

4 Extra Debut. Dane Baptiste introduces a programme exploring where pleasure, philosophy and neuroscience meet in 'Exchanges at the Frontier: Morten L Kringelbach'.

'The Pleasure Principle' host, comedian, Dane Baptiste, continues his exploration of our desire for pleasure using the BBC radio archive by introducing:

Exchanges at the Frontier: Morten L Kringelbach 
Philosophy meets neuroscience as AC Grayling talks to Professor of Neuroscience, Morten L Kringelbach about his research into the role of pleasure in our lives, which he believes is pivotal in our development and is intimately linked to emotional, cognitive and reward processing in the brain. 

First heard on the BBC World Service in 2010.

'The Pleasure Principle' season on 4 Extra is produced for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Peter McHugh.

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