Inheritance
Jo Fidgen asks why inheritance arouses such powerful emotions.
Analysis · BBC Radio 4
February 15, 201627m 56s
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Show Notes
Why does inheritance arouse such powerful emotions? Family, death and money make for gripping stories - just ask Tolstoy, Austen or Dickens - but our attitudes also reflect the way we feel about society, the state, and even ourselves.
Discussions tend to dissolve into rows about levels of tax but in this programme Jo Fidgen explores the values and intuitions that underpin our strength of feeling.
Producer: Joe Kent.