RSA Conversations

Do we need to rediscover our animal selves?

Episode Summary

Writers Melanie Challenger and Will Self consider the notion that at the heart of the human condition there's a complex struggle with being animal.

Episode Notes

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.  

In this special interview series from the RSA its chief executive, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for one big idea to help build effective bridges to our new future.

Melanie Challenger is the author of How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to Be Human. Will Self is a writer and broadcaster and the author of several books including his latest, Will

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