Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A panel of researchers share insights into the law and warfare, gender and AI & Anne McElvoy talks to David Brooks and Hilary Cottam about compassion and creating communities.
Part of a week long focus Free Thinking the Future. You can find more interviews and discussions to download and catch up with on the playlist on our website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zwn4d
Best selling US author and columnist David Brooks has just published The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. You can hear him talking to Rana Mitter about his book The Road to Character https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w8131 Hilary Cottam is Visiting Professor at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and the author of Radical Help.
Ryan Abbott is Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey. Peter Dunne is a lecturer at the University of Bristol Law School Craig Jones is a lecturer in political geography at the University of Newcastle.
A BBC Ideas playlist of films Are You Robot Ready is here https://www.bbc.com/ideas/playlists/are-you-robot-ready
Producer: Chris Wilson
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| 0:36.9 | Hello, I'm Anne McHalevoy, and this is BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas podcast, bringing together |
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