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Sunday Feature: Rhapsody of Rags - an Anatomy of Robert Burton

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Kevin Jackson discusses Robert Burton's 17th-century masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy, one of the first treatises to address the mind and its madness in depth. With contributions from psychotherapist Adam Phillips, Burton scholars Martin Dodsworth and Jonathan Sawday, writers Alan Sillitoe and Alexander Theroux and poet laureate Andrew Motion. Plus readings by John Sessions.

Contributors

Presenter:
Kevin Jackson
Interviewee:
Adam Phillips
Interviewee:
Martin Dodsworth
Interviewee:
Jonathan Sawday
Interviewee:
Alan Sillitoe
Interviewee:
Alexander Theroux
Interviewee:
Andrew Motion
Reader:
John Sessions
Producer:
Paul Quinn
Source: Radio Times

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