The Essay Episodes Available now
Scarborough Beach—The Meaning of Beaches
3/5 Fiona Stafford explores Scarborough beach - a true entrepreneur and survivor.
The Giant's Causeway—The Meaning of Beaches
Professor Fiona Stafford explores the ultimate beach-as-symbol, the Giant's Causeway.
Dover Beach—The Meaning of Beaches
Professor Fiona Stafford explores Dover beach, an emblem of Englishness for millennia.
The Underground Railroad—Narrative Medicine
5/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
To The Lighthouse—Narrative Medicine
4/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
Never Let Me Go—Narrative Medicine
3/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
The Wings of the Dove—Narrative Medicine
2/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
Sonny's Blues—Narrative Medicine
1/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
Sonny's Blues
How James Baldwin's short story helped break down divisions of class, age and race.
The Wings of the Dove
Finding a model for the physician in the pages of Henry James.
