Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Would You Eat an Alien?

Professor Christine Nicol explores the challenging subject of animal sentience and welfare, imagining the predicament faced by Jake the Spaceman, who has crash-landed on a remote planet

Radio 4,4 episodes

Episodes

ListGrid

Alien Persons
Christine Nicol explores the meaty problem of eating aliens. What if they are like people?
30 Dec 2015,28 mins
Sociable Aliens
Christine Nicol explores the meaty problem of eating aliens. How would you decide?
23 Dec 2015,28 mins
Emotional Aliens
Christine Nicol explores the meaty problem of eating aliens and how to choose which one.
16 Dec 2015,28 mins
Pain or No Pain?
Jake the spaceman crashes on a planet and has to eat the locals. Do they feel pain?
09 Dec 2015,28 mins