Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jane Goodall is giving a talk at the British Academy on the work of the Jane Goodall Foundation with chimpanzees, protecting the environment with local communities and improving health and education for girls in rural Africa. Elif Shafak's latest novel is called 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World and looks at the death of a sex worker and the last moments of her life. Elif Shafak has been vocal in her concerns about freedom of speech in modern day Turkey.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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