Peter Bazalgette
The Empathy Instinct
Sir Peter Bazalgette joined us at Google to talk about his new book, The Empathy Instinct, which seeks to address the essential question of how we create a more civil society when so many of us are divided.
Peter Bazalgette
Sir Peter Bazalgette was Chair of Arts Council England from 2013-2017. He also chaired the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation. He was educated at Dulwich College and read Law at Fitzwilliam College but escaped the law to spend most of his career working in television. He devised some of the biggest entertainment shows in recent TV history, such as Ready Steady Cook and brought Big Brother to the UK.
The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society
In this wide-ranging and accessible book full of entertaining stories that are underlined by the latest scientific research, Peter Bazalgette also mounts a passionate defense of arts and popular culture as a means of bridging the empathy gap.
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