What Makes us Human?

“I’ve just discovered the BBC Radio 2 feature ‘What makes us human?’, hosted by Jeremy Vine on his lunchtime show. Each month a different guest is asked the title question. In the nearly decade-long run of the feature, guests have included Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins, Judy Murray, David Attenburgh, Val McDermid, the Chief Rabbi and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Last year, a collection of guests’ answers were published with the subtitle ‘130 answers to the big question’.

As Vine points out in his introduction to the book, ‘life is chock-full of mundane questions’. He himself has to confess ‘I have spent more of my spare time repairing a door handle than asking what my life is for’. Why, he asks, don’t we ever ask each other what we are all doing here?”

To read the rest of Rev. Stephen Steele’s article published in the local Stranraer paper, click here.