This lecture explores Roald Dahl and his interest in medicine through the eyes of his doctor and friend, Professor Tom Solomon.

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Ep.06 - Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine

In this talk Prof Seamus O'Mahony, a member of the Lancet Commission on The Value of Death, explores the idea of a 'good death' in the 21st century.

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Ep.07 - What Is A Good Death

In this talk Dr Jessica Sharkey considers why Henry VIII is buried in relative obscurity, why Edward VI was cast as a sickly Lord Fauntleroy and why Elizabeth I refused to be married to her winding sheet.

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Ep.09 - Death Of Kings

This lecture explores some famous historical body parts, through the eyes of author Suzie Edge.

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Ep.10 - Vital Organs

In this talk Dr Dan O'Brien discusses the history of funerals and coffins.

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Ep.11 - The Coffin

In this talk Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik presents the sanitary bin in its historical context for the first time, and argues that it reveals changing attitudes towards menstruation, the environment and bathroom politics.

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Ep.12 - A History Of Menstruation

In this talk Professor Jonathan Reinarz explores the history of burn scars over the last two centuries.

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Ep.08 - Historical Reflections On Burn Scars

In this talk Dr Claire Jones explores the writing of birth control advocate Marie Stopes before the Second World War.

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Ep.13 - Marie Stopes

This fortnightly podcast from the Physicians' Gallery at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh presents stories from medicine, past and present

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