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Bodies: Episode 1: Cutting and Crisis - Rediscovering the human body

Episode 1: Cutting and Crisis - Rediscovering the human body

BBC Radio 4 - Bodies, Episode 1: Cutting and Crisis - Rediscovering the human body

Alice Roberts begins a time travelling tour of anatomical knowledge of the human body.

Professor Alice Roberts begins a ten-part narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age.

The human body is the battleground where our most fundamental ideas about the way the world is come into sharp focus. 

When we think and talk about the body, we are suddenly very aware of that pattern of thinking which frames concepts in opposition, divides the world up between dark and light, material and immaterial, technology and humanity, invisible and visible, mind and body, body and soul. 

In this new ten part series, academic and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts traces how human knowledge of anatomy has grown and changed over time, and how this changing understanding has in turn affected our understanding of who we are.

Episode 1: Cutting and Crisis - Rediscovering the human body

Professor Alice Roberts is an anatomist. She cuts up bodies to reveal another world of astonishing detail beneath the skin. In this episode, Alice introduces her time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge, from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. She begins by asking how we see our bodies and examines one idea that has forever dogged our concept of the body - the soul and the need for it to somehow be meshed into our picture of the body.

Presenter: Professor Alice Roberts
Actor: Jonathan Kydd 

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Professor Alice Roberts traces our changing understanding of human anatomy and ourselves.

Professor Alice Roberts traces how human knowledge of anatomy has grown and changed over time and how this has in turn affected our understanding of who we are.

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