🎧 Human Emotion
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 38m
Happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, disgust, fear... we all know what these emotions feel like, right?
But what is emotion? Do we all feel the same things? And do we have the same feelings as people who lived five-hundred years ago?
Today Kate is joined Betwixt the Sheets by Richard Firth-Godbehere to find out about the origins of emotions, and what they have to do with witchcraft and desire.
Senior producer: Charlotte Long. Producer: Sophie Gee. Mixed by Siobhan Dale.
This podcast includes music from Epidemic Sounds and an archive clip from Prelinger Archives.
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