Pantomime: Professor Jeffrey Richards; Bryony Lavery; EO Wilson

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Matthew Sweet on Pantomime past to present writer Jeffrey Richards and actor/director Tony Lidington. Jeffrey Richards book is called The Golden Age of Pantomime: Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England. Bryony Lavery talks stage writing ahead of her double-Christmas offerings of Treasure Island at the National Theatre in London and The One Hundred and One Dalmatians at Chichester's Festival Theatre. American biologist EO Wilson puts humanity centre-stage in his new book The Meaning of Human Existence and explains why we'll never meet ET and gets ants to take a bow. Producer: Jacqueline Smith You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.