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Last broadcast on Sat, 2 Jan 2010, 04:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Many of the most bitterly contested issues that Britain's legislators have to deal with today involve a clash of ethical systems that cuts across traditional political boundaries. Arguments about the nature of the family or about assisted suicide, genetic engineering and the manipulation of human embryos all raise questions that challenge the traditional view of human life held in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. By what values should Britain's politicians be guided in what some claim is a post-Christian, or even post-religious world? Should the secular ethics and bioethics, which hold a view of human life drawn from Charles Darwin, be held in equal balance with those put forward by religious groups?
Presented by Dennis Sewell.
CURRENT READING OF GUESTS AND THE PROGRAMME TEAM
'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel,
'A Week in December' by Sebastian Faulkes,
'The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics' by Dennis Sewell,
'A History of Christianity' by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Broadcasts
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Fri 1 Jan 201012:32
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Fri 1 Jan 201016:32
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Fri 1 Jan 201023:32
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Sat 2 Jan 201004:32
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