Sara Pascoe Gets Molested in Morocco and Ibiza

Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey, Series 1, Episode 3 - Territory

Episode 1 - Murder    • Sara Pascoe Solves Murder and the Wag...  
Episode 2 - Jealousy    • Sara Pascoe: Why Women Are More Vocal...  
Episode 4 - Charity    • Sara Pascoe on the Necessity of Our B...  

Sara will be exploring our modern social world though theories of Evolutionary Psychology and more. How does our monkey past influence our modern lives, and how come we can still get emotionally hijacked by our primitive emotions?

This week we're covering Territory. It's a vital resource and we live on a crowded planet, but why do we have such a visceral reaction when someone intrudes on our personal space? From the bigger picture concepts of colonialism and national borders, to how you divide your shared bedroom, to the physical limits of our own bodies, this is a frank, funny look at how our evolutionary history shapes the way we see and move through the world.