Dafydd M. Daniel Features in New Penguin Audiobook

Dr Dafydd Mills Daniel

Dafydd Mills Daniel featured in new Penguin audiobook - where 'The most exciting emerging thinkers of our age present their ideas'. 

Dafydd Mills Daniel's BBC radio documentary, Where do human rights come from? has been included in a new Penguin audiobook described as the place where 'The most exciting emerging thinkers of our age present their ideas'. 

The UKRI particularly highlights Dafydd's contribution 'on the origins of human rights'. 

The audiobook, Instant Expert: 100 of the best ideas from New Generation Thinkers brings together BBC documentaries by the BBC and AHRC New Generation Thinkers. 

Dafydd was selected to be a BBC and AHRC New Generation Thinker in 2018. 

His documentary, Where do human rights come from? was originally recorded live at the BBC Free Radio 3 Thinking Festival at the Sage Gateshead, before being broadcast on BBC Radio 3. 

It is available to listen to here, and described as follows 

“You don’t have to be religious to believe that, as the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “all human beings have the right to be free and treated equally.” However, drawing on a wide range of examples including Shakespeare’s Richard III to Disney’s Jiminy Cricket, New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel argues that the UN’s emphasis on “reason and conscience” as the drivers of liberty and equality make the modern conception of human rights more religious, and less liberal, than both secular proponents and conservative critics have supposed.”