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Free Thinking: What does game playing teach us?

What does playing games teach us?

What does game playing teach us?

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, What does game playing teach us?

Bobby Seagull and Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.

Free Thinking gets out the playing cards and the board games as Shahidha Bari and guests including Bobby Seagull consider the value of play, competitiveness and game theory.

University Challenge star Bobby Seagull, writer and critic Jordan Erica Webber, games consultant and researcher Dr Laura Mitchell, and British Museum curator Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari and others in the Free Thinking studio to get out the playing cards and the board games  and consider the value of play, competitiveness and game theory. 

Bobby Seagull has published The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers.
Irving Finkel has written Ancient Board Games, the Lewis Chessmen, Cuneiform, The Writing in Stone.   He is on the Editorial Board of Board Games Studies and discovered the rules for the royal game of Ur. 

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