The Essay Episodes Available now
Never Let Me Go
What does it mean to be human, and how can physicians respond to life's mysteries?
To The Lighthouse
Dr Rita Charon traces literary parallels in the responses of New Yorkers to 9/11.
The Underground Railroad
How a novel about American slavery is used to train medical students.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights—New Generation Thinkers
5/5 Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence.
John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet—New Generation Thinkers
4/5 Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower
Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia—New Generation Thinkers
3/5 Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England.
The Forgotten German Princess—New Generation Thinkers
2/5 The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.
Rehabilitating the Reverend John Trusler—New Generation Thinkers
1/5 Sophie Coulombeau challenges the way we look at failure in the story of a C18 entrepreneur
Forest Fire—Forests
What's the most creative force in the forest? Andrew C Scott believes that it's fire.
Scents of the Forest—Forests
Perfumer, Roja Dove, explains the power of the heady scents of the forest.
