Programme Index

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 25^th Jan 2021, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 8^th May 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. Show more

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FactualScience & Nature

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Bodies

Episode 1: Cutting and Crisis - Rediscovering the human body

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 18^th Jan 2021, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Sat 3^rd Apr 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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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. Show more

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FactualScience & Nature

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Bodies

Episode 3: Slaughterhouse Anatomy - The body in ancient Egypt

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 20^th Jan 2021, 20:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Sat 17^th Apr 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age Show more

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FactualScience & Nature

Series

Bodies

Episode 4: Archetype and Anatomy - The body in ancient Greece

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 21^st Jan 2021, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Sat 24^th Apr 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. Show more

Genres

FactualScience & Nature

Series

Bodies

Episode 5: The Living and the Dead - Opening up the body

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 22^nd Jan 2021, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Sat 1^st May 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. Show more

Genres

FactualScience & Nature

Series

Bodies

Omnibus 1

Duration: 57 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 22^nd Jan 2021, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Fri 22^nd Jan 2021, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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

Genres

FactualScience & Nature

Series

Bodies

Episode 2: The skull cup and the shape-shifters - The body in prehistory

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 19^th Jan 2021, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Sat 10^th Apr 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age Show more

Genres

FactualScience & Nature

Series

Bodies

Episode 8: The genius of Vesalius - science and salvation

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 27^th Jan 2021, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Sat 22^nd May 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. Show more

Genres

FactualScience & Nature

Series

Bodies

Episode 7: Leonardo - Drawing the body

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 26^th Jan 2021, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Sat 15^th May 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. Show more

Genres

FactualScience & Nature

Series

Bodies

Omnibus 2

Duration: 57 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 29^th Jan 2021, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Fri 29^th Jan 2021, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Professor Alice Roberts concludes her narrative history series about the human body - a time travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age Show more

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FactualScience & Nature

Series

Bodies

Episode 9: Dutch Still Life - the theatre of anatomy

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 28^th Jan 2021, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 29^th May 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. Show more

Genres

FactualScience & Nature

Series

Bodies

Episode 10: Visible and Invisible - where the body ends

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 29^th Jan 2021, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Sat 5^th Jun 2021, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Professor Alice Roberts concludes her narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. Show more

Genres

FactualScience & Nature

Series