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Crisis of Care

Episode 4

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 5

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Peter Owen-Jones

How eternity should be reclaimed from those who have tried to place it out of our reach.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Mona Siddiqui

Muslim theologian Mona Siddiqui speaks on the prospect of immortality.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Anders Sandberg

Anders Sandberg argues that ageing and mortality may be transformed by future technology.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Naomi Alderman

Novelist and game creator Naomi Alderman spekas on mathematical theories about infinity.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Lucy Winkett

Lucy Winkett argues efforts to give eternity a shape and momentum are temporary and futile

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Nicholas Shakespeare

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Nicola Barker

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 14 mins

Dawnwalks

Kamila Shamsie

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Ian Sansom

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Lucy Hughes Hallett

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

William Fiennes - The Bowel

Author William Fiennes, a sufferer of Crohn's disease, discusss the bowel.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

A Body of Essays: Chibundu Onuzo - The Fire of Life: The Thyroid

Author Chibundu Onuzo investigates the 'goldilocks' nature of the thyroid gland.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

A Body of Essays: Philip Kerr - Breaking Brain

Crime writer Philip Kerr explains how brain surgery has advanced over the years.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

Annie Freud - The Kidneys

Poet and artist Annie Freud discusses the kidneys, the body's most hard-working organs.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

Thomas Lynch - Whence and Whither: Some Thoughts on Uteri, on Wombs

Michigan-based undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the uterus.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 3

Minds at War: James Joyce's Ulysses

Writer Fintan O'Toole reflects on James Joyce's influential novel Ulysses.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 3

Minds at War: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September

Dr Heather Jones of the LSE explores Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 3

Minds at War: Francis Ledwidge's poem O'Connell Street

Gerald Dawe discusses the little-known poet Francis Ledwidge and his poem O'Connell Street

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 3

Minds at War: Father Browne's Photograph of a Wounded Soldier

Photographer John D McHugh explores one of the war photos of Father Francis Browne.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 3

Minds at War: Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie

Playwright and academic Elizabeth Kuti explores Sean O'Casey's play The Silver Tassie.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare 400

Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare and the Suffragettes

How Shakespeare's heroines helped transform Victorian schoolgirls into Edwardian activists

• 15 mins

Shakespeare 400

Shakespeare 400: Undiscovered Countries - Shakespeare and the Nation

James Loxley explores what Shakespeare's plays say about questions of national identity.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare 400

Shakespeare 400: Wolf All? - Shakespeare and Food in Renaissance England

Joan Fitzpatrick explains her new research on what people ate in Shakepeare's England.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare 400

Shakespeare 400: Freedom of Speech or 'Nothing' - King Lear and Contemporary India

Preti Taneja considers Shakespeare's King Lear as a lens through which to view India today

• 15 mins

Shakespeare 400

Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare Beyond London

Siobhan Keenan on the importance of touring to Shakespeare and the actors in his plays.

• 15 mins

Lines of Work

Lines of Work: Teacher Francis Gilbert on Rousseau

Lecturer Francis Gilbert reflects on Rousseau's template for a perfect education Emile.

• 15 mins

Lines of Work

Lines of Work: Theatre Critic Susannah Clapp on Oscar Wilde

Theatre critic Susannah Clapp exchanges views with Oscar Wilde and his essays on criticism

• 15 mins

Lines of Work

Lines of Work: Soldier Harry Parker on Ulysses S Grant

Soldier Harry Parker reflects on the personal memoirs of Ulysses S Grant.

• 15 mins