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Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Physician Gavin Francis leads us round a cultural map of the body: the mysterious liver, essential to life, capable of regeneration. From 2015. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Physician Gavin Francis leads us round a cultural map of the body: the foot, a unique marvel of engineering. From 2015. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Physician Gavin Francis leads us round a cultural map of the body: he starts with the brain. From 2015. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Physician Gavin Francis leads us round a cultural map of the body: facial muscles and our emotional lives. From 2015. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Physician Gavin Francis leads us round a cultural map of the body: arms - part of our body, and weapons of war. From 2015. Show more

Start the Week

Illness: Psychosomatic and Physical

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe discusses health and wellbeing with guests Suzanne O'Sullivan, Gavin Francis, Hugh Aldersey-Williams and Charlie Howard. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Suzanne O'Sullivan
Interviewed Guest:
Gavin Francis
Interviewed Guest:
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Charlie Howard
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Free Thinking

Sir Thomas Browne and Adventures in Human Beings

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet talks to Hugh Aldersey-Williams and Claire Preston, admirers of the literate 17th-century doctor Sir Thomas Browne and to Gavin Francis, a modern GP and writer. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Gavin Francis
Interviewed Guest:
Claire Preston

Free Thinking

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Episode 11: Can There Be Multiple Versions of Me?

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

TV presenter and campaigner June Sarpong, performer Emma Frankland, GP and author Gavin Francis and philosopher Julian Baggini discuss the changing self with Anne McElvoy. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
June Sarpong
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Frankland
Interviewed Guest:
Gavin Francis
Interviewed Guest:
Julian Baggini
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Scotland

Damian Barr is at Lanark Memorial Hall with Neil Gaiman, Kirsty Logan, Dr Gavin Francis, and there is poetry from Harry Josephine Giles. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Damian Barr
Interviewed Guest:
Neil Gaiman
Interviewed Guest:
Kirsty Logan
Interviewed Guest:
Gavin Francis
Executive Producer:
Pauline Law
Series Producer:
Carlin Wallace