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Philip Ball

Unnatural – The Heretical Idea of Making People

Hay Festival 2011, Sunday 5 June 2011

The writer delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of ‘anthropoesis’ – the artificial creation of people – to explore what it tells us about our views on life, humanity, creativity and technology. And what it tells us about the soul.