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Free Thinking Festival - Animals

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2599 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other. Rana Mitter talks to the primatologist, Andrew Whiten, Professor of Evolutionary and Development Psychology at St Andrews, to Dr Katie Slocombe of York University and to the social anthropologist, Professor Alex Bentley of Bristol University, about chimps and imitation, culture and evolution - from the deep past to our digital present. This event was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage, Gateshead on 02.11.14.

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0:00.0

Can I just say?

0:01.5

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.

0:04.0

It's such a wonderful listen.

0:05.6

So nice.

0:06.5

There are loads more like it on BBC sounds.

0:08.8

Different paces, different heights.

0:10.6

The roof is buckling.

0:11.9

Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.

0:14.2

It's right foot goes for goal.

0:16.6

And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.

0:21.7

The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.

0:25.2

And she's had to live with that.

0:26.8

So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.

0:29.8

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.8

Sort of expecting that every week now.

0:40.1

Hello. At the beginning of the last century, a young poet was suffering from writer's block,

0:45.3

and the man he worked for, the sculptor Rodin, no less, told him to go to the zoo and stay

0:51.2

there. But what will I do? asked the poet. Well, just look, Rodin said,

0:56.4

look until you capture the essence of the animal. And that's just what that poet, Raina Maria

1:01.7

Rilke, did. And then he wrote The Panther, one of his most famous poems, in which he reflects

1:07.3

on what he thinks he sees in that animal's mind. Culture surrounds us today.

1:13.1

So where did it come from?

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