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Radio 3,19 mins

Karen Joy Fowler: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Free Thinking

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Novelist Karen Joy Fowler talks to Matthew Sweet about her book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves which looks at the consequences of introducing a primate into the family. Plus they look at the human tendency to anthropomorphise with animal studies experts Susan McHugh and Giovanni Aloi. Photo: © Beth Gwinn

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