{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/af0e16de-9e4b-419b-b090-e1fe8c56f241/07896320-55bb-4feb-bd66-616852b2bf0c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Empathy: for better, for worse","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61ba0ef81a8cbec7663cf149/61ba0f46db9996001aebdf97.png?height=200","description":"<p>Are we hard-wired to feel other people’s pain? And if so, is it necessarily a good thing? Andrew Scull has reviewed three new books on empathy and joins us to tell us more;&nbsp;Charles Dickens's love of all things theatrical – in life as in art – is no secret. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst considers fifty years' worth of Dickens adaptations for the stage (and film)</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Books</strong></p><p>The Empathy Instinct by Peter Bazalgette</p><p>Against Empathy:&nbsp;The case for rational compassion&nbsp;by Paul Bloom</p><p>The Invention of Humanity: Equality and cultural difference in world history by&nbsp;Siep Stuurman&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Dickensian Dramas: Plays from Charles Dickens (Volume One, edited by Jacky Bratton; Volume Two, edited by Jim Davis&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"The TLS"}