The Vegan Option - Vegetarianism: The Story So Far

Ian McDonald

In 2016-7, Ian McDonald tells one epic tale - the backstory to today's vegetarian and vegan movements. From the Ganges plain to the hills of New England, from the iron age to the present day, voices challenge the idea that other animals exist soley for humans. Discover philosopher kings, rebel poets, and forgotten heroes in this radio history of vegetarianism. Stories from vegan perspectives. Great radio that just happens to be vegan. This is The Vegan Option.

  • 29 April 2020, 7:12 pm

    Spillover Diseases: Covid-19 & Zoonoses, with Jonna Mazet and Aysha Akhtar

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  • 13 September 2017, 10:36 am

    VegHist Ep 15: Liberation. Veganism, hippies, and the animal rights movement

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  • 29 June 2017, 10:29 am

    VegHist Ep 14: Diet Reform. Consumerism, Lebensreform, and Gandhi

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  • 16 May 2017, 10:20 am

    VegHist Ep 13: The Vegetarians. Abolitionism, colonialism, and Victorian reformers; with Julia Twigg and Bhaskar Chakraborty. In London

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  • 28 April 2017, 10:13 am

    VegHist Ep 12: Radicals & Romantics. Bible Christians, Grahamites, and Transcendentalists

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  • 7 February 2017, 10:00 am

    VegHist Ep 11: Enlightenment. Colonial India, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Les Bardus

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  • 3 January 2017, 9:42 am

    VegHist Ep 10: Revolution. English civil war, diet gurus, and the poetry of Sensibility

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  • 8 December 2016, 5:21 pm

    VegHist Ep 9: Renaissance. Descartes, Montaigne, Gassendi, and the “sparing diet”

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  • 6 October 2016, 7:23 pm

    VegHist Ep 8: Contacts. Indian Sufism, Bhakti, Akbar, Portuguese Christianity, and Gaudiya Vaishnavism

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  • 6 September 2016, 8:51 pm

    VegHist Ep 7: Heresies. On Chinese Buddhists, Cathars, Bogomils, Islam, and Manichaeans

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  • 5 July 2016, 8:55 pm

    VegHist Ep 6: Hinduism. On Indian Vegetarianism, Vaishnavism, Satvik, and Mahayana Buddhism

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