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Radio 3,22 Jun 2023,44 mins

Gut instinct

Free Thinking

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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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