Six talks by Dr Colin Blakemore, Fellow of Downing College and Royal Society Locke Research Fellow at Cambridge University.

In his opening lecture, Dr Blakemore chronicles the development of man's ideas on the location and function of the mind. He argues that it was Descartes's view of brain and soul as being distinct entities that allowed men, even devout men, to study the workings of the brain without fear of treading in the footsteps of God.

(Last Wednesday's broadcast on Radio 4 and printed in The Listener dated 11 Nov.) (Next lecture, Chang Tsu and the Butterfly: 17 November R4, 21 November R3)