- $2-3,000 to save the life of a child in Africa
- $15,180 to hire a hitman
- $368,901 to pay the average ransom demand.
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. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything – including life itself. For philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and government ministers, it’s just part of the job.
Join journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman for an eye-opening discussion about monetisation, tech and the true price of human life in today's world in her extraordinary new book The Price of Life - a Radio 4 Book of the Week.
We’ll be taking a sobering and darkly fascinating look at the people who put a price on our lives, how and why these numbers are calculated, and what this means for our humanity.
Don't miss this compelling examination of what it means, and what it costs, to save a life.
