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The Gut Instinct: A Social History

Tim Hayward journeys through the bowels of history, exploring our changing relationship with the human gut.

Radio 4,5 episodes

Episodes

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5 - The Gut Speaks
Goblins, gods, and gurgles - Tim Hayward asks what our guts have been trying to tell us.
28 Dec 2018,14 mins
4 - The Disease of Civilisation
Tim Hayward on modern life, constipation; and how indigestion changed political protest.
27 Dec 2018,14 mins
3 - The Language of the Gut
Tim Hayward goes back to the middle ages to track our changing relationship with the gut.
26 Dec 2018,14 mins
2 - A Window into the Gut
Tim Hayward peers through a window directly into the gut.
25 Dec 2018,14 mins
1 - Gut Culture
Tim Hayward on how different cultures have had very different attitudes to the human gut.
24 Dec 2018,14 mins