The Sound of Anger. SHORT. Seneca's De Ira
In this episode, Thomas Dixon reads some extracts from his favourite text about angry emotions, the Roman philosopher Seneca's treatise on rage - De Ira. This is one of a series of short podcasts ex...
20 Mars 20197min
Dr Tim Read on archetypal crises
Dr Tim Read is a consultant psychiatrist who worked for 20 years at the Royal Free Hospital. He's also the author of Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth, and a member of the Psy...
11 Juli 201855min
Unlocking the positives In spiritual psychosis
Anthony Fidler discusses how western psychiatry failed to help him when he experienced occasional episodes of highly altered states (also called psychosis). Instead, he learned to navigate through the...
17 Mars 20181h 26min
Geoff Mulgan on the politics of loneliness and happiness
Geoff Mulgan is the CEO of NESTA, former director of the Number 10 policy unit, co-founder of Demos, co-founder of Action for Happiness, and a key figure in the British 'politics of well-being'. We di...
13 Mars 201841min
Dr Guy Hayward on finding transcendence through pilgrimage & evensong
Dr Guy Hayward is a sort of guerrilla agitator for Anglicanism, helping connect its cultural treasure to the majority of British people who no longer consider themselves Christian. A chorister and cab...
26 Okt 20171h 18min
The Museum Of The Normal
A podcast exploring the ideas and history of “normal’. How do you measure up? Where are you on the scale? And what about your children? One late Autumn night, on the third floor of Barts pathology m...
21 Okt 201724min
QMUL NORMAL: Guerilla Aspie
"Death to all daft and emotional neurotypicals who love soap operas!" Paul and Elizabeth Wady both have an autism diagnosis. In his book, Guerilla Aspies, and show of the same name, Paul Wady offer...
18 Okt 201716min
QMUL Psychic Driving interview with David Saunders
One evening in November 2016, as part of the Being Human Festival, David Saunders invited seventy-three individuals into a small room on the third floor of St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Once there, they ...
8 Okt 201721min
