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Allan Little hosts debates from Edinburgh in an Enlightenment spirit.

Allan Little hosts a series of discussions in the spirit of the Scottish Enlightenment, in places associated with historical Enlightenment encounters.

Enlightenment After Dark: Series 1

Enlightenment After Dark: Series 1: Bodies

Bodies

29/08/2017

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 - Enlightenment After Dark, Series 1, Bodies

Allan Little talks to painter Ken Currie and forensic anthropologist and anatomist Professor Sue Black in the Old Anatomy Theatre of Edinburgh University about bodies.

In Enlightenment After Dark, Allan Little hosts a series of discussions in the spirit of the Scottish Enlightenment, in historically resonant places. Tonight Allan and guests painter Ken Currie and Professor Sue Black discuss the Body in the atmospheric setting of the Old Anatomy Theatre of Edinburgh University's Medical School. 

Image: Three Oncologists (Professor RJ Steele, Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri and Professor Sir David P Lane of the Department of Surgery and Molecular Oncology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.), 2002
National Galleries of Scotland (c) Ken Currie.

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