The Birds and the Bees, and Books Made of Cheese
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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 \\u201cbibliobiography\\u201d by a Shakespeare scholar that digs deep into centuries of books and their readers - from \\u201cshelfies\\u201d to book burning to the historical precedent for Jilly Cooper\\u2019s Riders.
\'Different: Gender through the eyes of a primatologist\\u2019 by Frans de Waal
\\u2018Bitch: A revolutionary guide to sex, evolution and the female animal\\u2019 by Lucy Cooke
\\u2018Portable Magic: A history of books and their readers\\u2019 by Emma Smith
Produced by Sophia Franklin
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