Animals can be companions and resources, cyphers and symbols. But who gets to speak for them, and how? Join a novelist, a farmer and an ethicist to explore the four-legged world of creatures great and small. Maggie McKellar (Graft), Chris Flynn (Here Be Leviathans), Professor Peter Singer (Animal Liberation Now, The Buddhist and the Ethicist) with Stephen Romei.

Australian philosopher Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and the recipient of the Berggruen Prize for ideas that shape human self-understanding. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason) and The Most Good You Can Do. Singer divides his time between Princeton and Melbourne.