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Extreme Sports

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Mar 3, 202627:58Religion & Spirituality

What can the worlds of mountaineering and endurance running reveal about changing ideas of freedom, identity and the body? Laurie Taylor talks to Sarah Lonsdale, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City, University of Londo...

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Extreme Sports is an episode from Thinking Allowed by BBC. What can the worlds of mountaineering and endurance running reveal about changing ideas of freedom, identity and the body? Laurie Taylor talks to Sarah Lonsdale, Senior Lecturer in...

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