A Radio 4 Book of the Week
‘Jon Ronson meets Louis Theroux in the style of Joan Didion’<\/b> – Telegraph<\/i>
‘Riveting . . . human stories that make the impersonal intelligible’ <\/b>– The Guardian<\/i><\/p>\n
In surprising stories that take us into the worlds of hitmen, insurance frauds and modern-day slaves, Jenny Kleeman explores the value of human life.<\/b><\/p>\n
We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. For philanthropists, judges, criminals and healthcare providers, it’s just part of the job. In The Price of Life<\/i>, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what we’re worth.<\/p>\n
In a series of extraordinary encounters – with people who have faked their own death or lost a loved one to terrorism, with hitmen and with modern-day slaves – she discovers more questions than answers. What happens when we take human emotions out of the equation? Are some lives really worth more than others? In a world in love with data, what do we lose and what do we gain by leaving the judgments that really matter up to cold, hard logic?
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‘Compelling’ <\/b>– Literary Review<\/i>
‘Reframes how you think about the world’ <\/b>– Sophie Elmhirst, author of Maurice and Maralyn<\/i>
‘Gripping’ – <\/b>Daily Mail<\/i>
‘Writing, thinking and storytelling at its best’ <\/b>– Ben Judah, author of This Is Europe<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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