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CHALLENGING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HUMAN: Post-humanism in literature and film

June 26, 2026 4:43am 54 min

In this episode we explore how post-humanist ideas and perspectives, discussed in the earlier episode with Christine Daigle (season 2, episode 7), are reflected in literature and film. Fresh from teaching a course on pos...

FOUND IN TRANSLATION: Linguistic shape-shifting.

June 11, 2026 12:33pm 44 min

In this episode we talk to linguist and academic Nicoletta Asciuto about her York university module 'Found in Translation' and four of her former students. Nicoletta talks about her move from monolingual upbringing to kn...

DERRIDA'S CAT: Exploring the boundaries of the human.

June 08, 2026 2:43pm 44 min

In this episode French philosophy specialist Judith Still talks about Jacque Derrida and in particular his late preoccupation with the animal-human boundary. After surveying philosophical writing on animals going back tw...

DOPPELGANGER: Doubles in psychiatry, neurology and fiction.

May 19, 2026 1:48pm 1:02

In this extraordinarily wide ranging podcast, we talk about doubles from the point of view of psychopathology, neuroscience, and what they tell us about the nature of self. Our neuroscience discussion includes the work o...

BIOETHICS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER

May 12, 2026 2:25pm 58 min

Leading ethicist/philosopher Jonathan D. Moreno makes a welcome return to Brainland to discuss his recently published and compelling book 'ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL: Bioethics and the Rules-based Order'. We talk about the his...

POSTHUMANIST VULNERABILITY

May 07, 2026 11:29am 48 min

In this episode Christine Daigle, a leading figure in posthumanist philosophy and material feminism, begins by defining those terms before unpacking some of the ideas in her recent book 'Posthumanist Vulnerability: An af...

FREUD AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALING

April 30, 2026 10:56am 1:08

Mark Solms is a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst fluent in German, which is why in the 1990s, he agreed to take on the daunting task of collating and translating Freud's 23 years of writing on the brain and neurology pre...

PROTO: Uncovering the shared origin of the world's most spoken languages.

April 21, 2026 1:48pm 42 min

In this episode Laura Spinney talks about the background to her book 'Proto', an extraordinarily wide ranging and engaging account of the origin and archeology of Indo-European languages. We discuss the source of ancient...

GEORGE SAND: The life, times and shifting reputation of an early feminist writer and thinker.

April 02, 2026 11:13am 59 min

In this podcast we discuss 19th century French novelist, dramatist and memoirist George Sand. In a wide-ranging conversation, based on Fiona's very readable and recent biography, we talk about Sand's great literary succe...

TRANSHUMANISM: Humanity's great hope or the devil's work?

March 24, 2026 9:14am 50 min

In this episode Stefan Sorgner, a leading academic in the growing field of transhumanist philosophy defines and talks about his route to the subject before drawing a distinction, elaborated in his upcoming book, on the d...

THE MATCHBOX GIRL: Recreating Hans Asperger's world in fiction

March 19, 2026 4:52pm 47 min

In this episode novelist and playwright Alice Jolly talks about her latest novel, 'The Matchbox Girl'' about a neurodiverse girl and then young woman who is referred to Asperger's clinic in Vienna in the 1930s. Alice tal...

HANS ASPERGER AND THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM: Reflections on the past, present and future

March 06, 2026 2:50pm 42 min

For the first episode of season 3 your host travelled to North London to record a conversation with Dame Uta Frith whose translation of Hans Asperger’s now famous paper was published 35 years ago. After discussing her re...

SEASON 2 FINALE: Surfing Brainland

February 07, 2026 2:47pm 30 min

The final episode of season 2 is a compilation of 10 male and 10 female voices from season two, chosen more or less at random, about 90 seconds from each episode sampled at or around 20 minutes in. Thanks to all guests f...

FRANKENSTEIN DISASSEMBLED: The remarkable life of Mary Shelley.

February 01, 2026 6:00pm 1:08

Fiona Sampson's probing biography of Mary Shelley is the first of a trilogy of biographies of 19th century writers of the romantic period. After sharing her approach to biography, Fiona talks about Mary's famous parents:...

DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 2 - Neuroscientific collaborations.

January 29, 2026 2:19pm 48 min

Soviet era film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein began collaborating with Alexander Luria and Lev Vigotsky, key figures in neuropsychology and developmental psychology, in 1925, the year he released his most famou...

DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 1 - Life and films.

January 21, 2026 10:39am 1:00

This is the first of two episodes on the life, work and collaborations of Soviet film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein. Ian Christie has researched and written about Eisenstein for more than 40 years. In this wide...

AN ARTIFICIAL HISTORY OF NATURAL INTELLIGENCE: Time travelling the mind.

January 17, 2026 6:19am 48 min

In this episode David Bates discusses his recent book An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with machines from Decartes to the digital age', a masterly survey of the history of intelligence and its aids...

WILLIAM SARGANT AND HIS 'SLEEP ROOM': Shrinks, spooks and medical hubris.

January 14, 2026 4:25am 59 min

In this podcast novelist and journalist Jon Stock discusses his latest book 'The Sleep Room: A very British Medical scandal', is a factual account of psychiatrist William Sargant (1907-88 ) that focusses particularly on ...

MANHANDLING THE BRAIN: How did damaging the brains of the mentally ill ever seem a good idea?

December 28, 2025 11:12am 38 min

In this festive episode Ken reads 'Manhandling the Brain', his essay on the origins of mid-20th century psychosurgery, an attempt to understand how, for over 20 years, so many people thought it such a good idea to damage...

THE HORROR! The anatomy of fear in film.

December 18, 2025 4:52am 53 min

In this episode film critic/writer Matt Glasby and artist Barney Bodoano discuss their innovative book on horror movies 'The Book of Horror: The anatomy of fear in film'. After talking about their gateway into their horr...

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