The Martin’s Act at 200 radio documentary is a collaborative endeavor between Martin Rowe and the Culture & Animals Foundation and the writer Alex Lockwood. Episodes 1-3 were produced by Ryan Rhodes, with the voice talent of Ryan Rhodes, Ben Hunt, Sharon Eckman, EvaMarie Lindahl, Daneet Steffens, and Richard Martin MP dramatized by the one and only Peter Egan.
Our ambition in marking the bicentenary of Martin’s Act is to chart its history and legacy, and to generate new thinking and debate on the future of human–animal relations especially in regard to animals and the law. Join us as we speak to artists, activists, academics and others in charting a new path toward our just and sustainable future.
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The Martin’s Act at 200 radio documentary is a collaborative endeavor between Martin Rowe and the Culture & Animals Foundation and the writer Alex Lockwood. Episodes 1-3 were produced by Ryan Rhodes, with the voice talent of Ryan Rhodes, Ben Hunt, Sharon Eckman, EvaMarie Lindahl, Daneet Steffens, and Richard Martin MP dramatized by the one and only Peter Egan.
Our ambition in marking the bicentenary of Martin’s Act is to chart its history and legacy, and to generate new thinking and debate on the future of human–animal relations especially in regard to animals and the law. Join us as we speak to artists, activists, academics and others in charting a new path toward our just and sustainable future.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, we explore interrelated strands that connect the animal activism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We learn about the “monstrous veganism” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) with scholar Emelia Quinn; we explore the radical Quaker vision of Donald Watson, the co-founder of the Vegan Society (1944) with Kate Stewart and Matthew Cole. With novelist Paula Owen we enter the world of antivivisectionists Lizzy Linda af Hageby and Liesa Schartau in the “Little Brown Dog” riots of the early 1900s; and Tony Milligan tells us about the tragic story of Laika, who in 1957 became the first animal in space.
The threads that weave the centuries together are the power of memorials both to affirm the hero and to stir unrest; the effects of war on animal advocacy; and the century-long challenges between attempting to moderate institutional cruelty and indifference and espousing a more radical vision of social change, veganism, and ending animal exploitation.
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