Sue Black & Tom Shakespeare

Robin and Helen's special guests this week are the 2022 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer, best selling author and forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black and the sociologist, bioethicist and leading disability campaigner Professor Sir Tom Shakespeare. In this episode we travel from the Glasgow shipyards to Florence, Italy in search of inspiration...

We want to know who inspired the people that inspire us. Each guest will invite the people who formed the ideas that have shaped their work, inspiration, creativity and life. Some may be heroes and, some may be villains, a few may be in-between. They may be alive. They may be dead. They might even be fictional.

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