BBC Ideas - Why We Stand on Two Legs

Why do we stand on two legs? This film opens up completely new thinking on one of the most familiar shared human experiences of them all – standing!

Leadership expert Martin Newman shares his insight to being upright – something almost all of us take for granted. In our second short film for BBC Ideas, we explore the challenges, power and history of standing, revealing that it is much more than just a case of understanding body language. Standing is not only a state of body, it is a state of mind.