With Alun Withey on Victorian beards, Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum on fatherhood, and David Halpern and Jim Macnamara debating the value of listening. Matthew Sweet presents. Show more
Anne McElvoy looks at health systems past and present, as well as how medical advances shape our thinking about our bodies and well being in society. Show more
With Anne McElvoy. Including portraits of Virginia Woolf at the National Portrait Gallery, Richard Flanagan's new novel, the security services in fiction and medical history. Show more
