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Radio 4,29 Dec 2008,45 mins

29/12/2008

Start the Week

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Andrew Marr takes a look at what he calls the ‘anti-news’; those trends and big ideas that will shape our lives long after the headline stories have faded. He explores how the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience make us question what it is to be human and he hears from some of the most thought-provoking thinkers from Start the Week this year, including Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Susan Greenfield, Daniel Dennett, Raymond Tallis and Richard Holmes.

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