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# Episode Title Description People Date
1 Creative Commons The Gut-Brain Connection Why is digestive health so central to our understanding of who we are? How has this changed since the nineteenth century? How did Victorians perceive the gut-brain connection? What does science tell us now? Emilie Taylor-Brown, Katerina Johnson 24 Jun 2019
2 Creative Commons A Networked Age What does it means to live in a networked age? Was the electric telegraph a forerunner of the internet? Have the benefits of new means of communication been universal? Is the long-awaited ‘global village’ still on the horizon? Grant Blank, Jean-Michel Johnston 24 Jun 2019
3 Creative Commons Surgical Consent How has the relationship between doctor and patient changed since the nineteenth century? Did Victorian surgeons take their patients’ wishes seriously? How have the regulations surrounding surgical consent changed? Ashok Handa, Sally Frampton 24 Jun 2019
4 Creative Commons Bible Translation in Germany From Old High German via Martin Luther to Bibel in gerechter Sprache. A whistle stop tour of German Bible translation Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones, Daniel Lloyd 03 Mar 2016