Free Thinking

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The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Free Thinking: Gut instinct

Gut instinct

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Gut instinct

From gut feelings in your stomach to the language of disgust. Matthew Sweet hosts.

New Generation Thinkers Elsa Richardson, Brendan McGeever and editor of the Skeptic, Michael Marshall, join Matthew Sweet for a conversation about how we judge actions and truth.

The Skeptic editor, Michael Marshall, talks to Matthew Sweet about how we judge actions and truth. They're joined by New Generation Thinkers Elsa Richardson, who is a historian of the emotions at the University of Strathclyde working on a popular history of the gut-brain connection and digestion more widely, and Brendan McGeever, who teaches on sociology, racism and anti-Semitism at Birkbeck, University of London. 

Producer: Julian Siddle

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