The Birds and the Bees, and Books Made of Cheese

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Carol Tavris to discuss two wide-ranging works of biology that cast fascinating light on our understanding of sexual behaviour and gender identity throughout the animal and human world. And James Waddell explores a “bibliobiography” by a Shakespeare scholar that digs deep into centuries of books and their readers - from “shelfies” to book burning to the historical precedent for Jilly Cooper’s Riders.'Different: Gender through the eyes of a primatologist’ by Frans de Waal‘Bitch: A revolutionary guide to sex, evolution and the female animal’ by Lucy Cooke‘Portable Magic: A history of books and their readers’ by Emma SmithProduced by Sophia Franklin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.