Introduction

CNN's Richard Quest wants to talk about how people have seen and understood the meaning of suffering over time. This is one of the big themes in your 2019 book Dominion, and it's also something that you touch on on many episodes of your wonderful podcast, The Rest is History. Today we're very eager to talk to you, Tom, about the history of how people look at pain and suffering - such uplifting topics but really central to the human experience.