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
Physician Gavin Francis leads us round a cultural map of the body: the foot, a unique marvel of engineering. From 2015. Show more
Physician Gavin Francis leads us round a cultural map of the body: he starts with the brain. From 2015. Show more
Physician Gavin Francis leads us round a cultural map of the body: facial muscles and our emotional lives. From 2015. Show more
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
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
Free Thinking
Sir Thomas Browne and Adventures in Human Beings
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
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
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