The Big Idea
The Big Idea
BBC World Service
Why do we find things disgusting?
13 minutes Posted Oct 10, 2020 at 7:50 am.
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There are some things - cockroaches, poo, wounds - that most of us find disgusting. But is disgust useful? Can our sense of disgust be misused? We ask an academic who describes herself as a ‘disgustologist’.

Since recording this programme, Professor Val Curtis has passed away.