大象传媒

Mark Tully wonders what might happen if we challenge our instinctive fears and prejudices. Some instincts can protect us but others can act as barriers in our lives.

Mark looks at instincts like fear, disgust, hatred and revenge and considers how overcoming them can have positive results.

The programme features examples of people who have gone against the instinct to hate: the white judge in the Southern States of America who, in times of segregation, risked his life to defend Negroes; and the Croatian poet who writes of the need to love our enemies, despite what they have done in the past and continue to do now. In her words: 'only love such as this can save the world... make life come out of death'.

The readers are Samantha Bond and Peter Guinness.

Producer: Adam Fowler
A Unique production for 大象传媒 Radio 4