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The EssayA Body of Essays: Series 2Episodes

    Thomas Lynch - Whence and Whither: Some Thoughts on Uteri, on Wombs

    5/5Michigan-based undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the uterus.

    Annie Freud - The Kidneys

    4/5Poet and artist Annie Freud discusses the kidneys, the body's most hard-working organs.

    A Body of Essays: Philip Kerr - Breaking Brain

    3/5Crime writer Philip Kerr explains how brain surgery has advanced over the years.

    A Body of Essays: Chibundu Onuzo - The Fire of Life: The Thyroid

    2/5Author Chibundu Onuzo investigates the 'goldilocks' nature of the thyroid gland.

    William Fiennes - The Bowel

    1/5Author William Fiennes, a sufferer of Crohn's disease, discusss the bowel.